This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
MATSUO BASHOFriends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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The journey itself is my home.
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Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
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Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
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Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
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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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