For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
MATSUO BASHOThe moon is brighter since the barn burned.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
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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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Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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