When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
MATSUO BASHOCome, see the true flowers of this pained world.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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The basis of art is change in the universe.
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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
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First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
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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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