This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
MATSUO BASHOSummer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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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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Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
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Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
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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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Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, “I shall be unhappy without loneliness,” shows that he made loneliness his master.
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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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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.
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Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
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Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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