Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
MATSUO BASHOCalm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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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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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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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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Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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