With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
MATSUO BASHOThe moon is brighter since the barn burned.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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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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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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The basis of art is change in the universe.
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I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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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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A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.
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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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