Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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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A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.
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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
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Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, “I shall be unhappy without loneliness,” shows that he made loneliness his master.
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I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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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 basis of art is change in the universe.
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Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
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Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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