Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
MATSUO BASHOEvery day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
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A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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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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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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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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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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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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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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Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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