Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
MATSUO BASHOFriends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
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A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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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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April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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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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Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.
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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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Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
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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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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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Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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