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
MATSUO BASHOThere is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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The basis of art is change in the universe.
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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Farewell, my old fan. / Having scribbled on it, / What could I do but tear it / At the end of summer?
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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
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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 day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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