Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
MATSUO BASHOSummer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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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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Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
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This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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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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Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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When composing a verse let there not be a hair’s breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy.
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