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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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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The journey itself is my home.
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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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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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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.
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Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.
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