First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
MATSUO BASHOThe moon is brighter since the barn burned.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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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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Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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The basis of art is change in the universe.
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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
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Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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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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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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