Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
MATSUO BASHOPoverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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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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Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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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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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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The moon and sun are travelers through eternity. Even the years wander on. Whether drifting through life on a boat or climbing toward old age leading a horse, each day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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