The basis of art is change in the universe.
MATSUO BASHOOld dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
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The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, “I shall be unhappy without loneliness,” shows that he made loneliness his master.
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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.
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A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.
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Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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