Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
MATSUO BASHOEvery moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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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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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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Without bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance all over the world?
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Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo. And in doing so, you must leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Otherwise you impose yourself on the object and you do not learn.
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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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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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No matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it.
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Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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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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