Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
MATSUO BASHOClapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
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The basis of art is change in the universe.
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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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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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Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.
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Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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Farewell, my old fan. / Having scribbled on it, / What could I do but tear it / At the end of summer?
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Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
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Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
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