An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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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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This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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The moon and sun are travelers through eternity. Even the years wander on. Whether drifting through life on a boat or climbing toward old age leading a horse, each day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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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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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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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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