The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
MATSUO BASHOClapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.
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Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
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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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There came a day when the clouds drifting along with the wind aroused a wanderlust in me, and I set off on a journey to roam along the seashores
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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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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
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A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
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Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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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 haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.
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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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