A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
MATSUO BASHOCome, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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Make the universe your companion, always bearing in mind the true nature of things-mountains and rivers, trees and grasses, and humanity-and enjoy the falling blossoms and the scattering leaves.
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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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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Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
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Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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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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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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The basis of art is change in the universe.
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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
MATSUO BASHO