I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
MATSUO BASHO
For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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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
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo. And in doing so, you must leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Otherwise you impose yourself on the object and you do not learn.
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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.
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Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
MATSUO BASHO