There came a day when the clouds drifting along with the wind aroused a wanderlust in me, and I set off on a journey to roam along the seashores
MATSUO BASHOFor this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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I felt quite at home, / As if it were mine sleeping lazily / In this house of fresh air.
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Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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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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The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
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Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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