Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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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The journey itself is my home.
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I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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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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The basis of art is change in the universe.
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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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Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
MATSUO BASHO