Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
MATSUO BASHOAwakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
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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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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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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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Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
MATSUO BASHO






