Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
MATSUO BASHOPoverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
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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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There came a day when the clouds drifting along with the wind aroused a wanderlust in me, and I set off on a journey to roam along the seashores
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This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
MATSUO BASHO