On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
MATSUO BASHOHow much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
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The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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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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Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
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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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First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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