A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
MATSUO BASHOApril’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
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Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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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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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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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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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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