Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
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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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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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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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The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.
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Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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I felt quite at home, / As if it were mine sleeping lazily / In this house of fresh air.
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April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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