All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
MATSUO BASHOHow much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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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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Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
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Go to the object. Leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Do not impose yourself on the object. Become one with the object. Plunge deep enough into the object to see something like a hidden glimmering there.
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Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
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Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.
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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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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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