Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
MATSUO BASHOCalm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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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 basis of art is change in the universe.
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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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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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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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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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Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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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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This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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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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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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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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