First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
MATSUO BASHOThe basis of art is change in the universe.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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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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Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.
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Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
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Go to the object. Leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Do not impose yourself on the object. Become one with the object. Plunge deep enough into the object to see something like a hidden glimmering there.
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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When composing a verse let there not be a hair’s breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy.
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Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
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