Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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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Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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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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Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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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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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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Without bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance all over the world?
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