How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
MATSUO BASHOI hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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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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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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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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When composing a verse let there not be a hair’s breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy.
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Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
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The journey itself is my home.
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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
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