This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
MATSUO BASHOClapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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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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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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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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April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.
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Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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