The moon and sun are travelers through eternity. Even the years wander on. Whether drifting through life on a boat or climbing toward old age leading a horse, each day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
MATSUO BASHODon’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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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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Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
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Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
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Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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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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Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.
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Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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The universe and its beings are a complementarity of empty infinity, intimate interrelationships, and total uniqueness of each and every being.
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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