Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
MATSUO BASHOCome, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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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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Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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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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A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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I felt quite at home, / As if it were mine sleeping lazily / In this house of fresh air.
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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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The journey itself is my home.
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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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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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