Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
MATSUO BASHOBreaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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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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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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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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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.
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The journey itself is my home.
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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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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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