Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
MATSUO BASHOCalm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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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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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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The basis of art is change in the universe.
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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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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.
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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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