First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
MATSUO BASHOThis autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.
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Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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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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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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