Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
MATSUO BASHOA thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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No matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it.
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
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A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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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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Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
MATSUO BASHO