For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
MATSUO BASHODon’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
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A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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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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Make the universe your companion, always bearing in mind the true nature of things-mountains and rivers, trees and grasses, and humanity-and enjoy the falling blossoms and the scattering leaves.
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Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
MATSUO BASHO