On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
MATSUO BASHOCome, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.
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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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The journey itself is my home.
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The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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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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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.
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All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
MATSUO BASHO