Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
MATSUO BASHOA weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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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Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
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At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
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Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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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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Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
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This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
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A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.
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April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
MATSUO BASHO