Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
MATSUO BASHOThe basis of art is change in the universe.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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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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At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
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Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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