This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
MATSUO BASHOSpring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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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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Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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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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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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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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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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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
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Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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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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