All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
MATSUO BASHOA thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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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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