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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Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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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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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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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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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo. And in doing so, you must leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Otherwise you impose yourself on the object and you do not learn.
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