A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
MATSUO BASHODon’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
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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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Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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The journey itself is my home.
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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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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo. And in doing so, you must leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Otherwise you impose yourself on the object and you do not learn.
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The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.
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Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
MATSUO BASHO