First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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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Make the universe your companion, always bearing in mind the true nature of things-mountains and rivers, trees and grasses, and humanity-and enjoy the falling blossoms and the scattering leaves.
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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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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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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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There came a day when the clouds drifting along with the wind aroused a wanderlust in me, and I set off on a journey to roam along the seashores
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