Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
MATSUO BASHOWhy so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
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Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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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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No matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it.
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The universe and its beings are a complementarity of empty infinity, intimate interrelationships, and total uniqueness of each and every being.
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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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The journey itself is my home.
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At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
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