How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
MATSUO BASHOThe basis of art is change in the universe.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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The journey itself is my home.
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A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
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Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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