Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
MATSUO BASHOCollecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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I felt quite at home, / As if it were mine sleeping lazily / In this house of fresh air.
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April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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There came a day when the clouds drifting along with the wind aroused a wanderlust in me, and I set off on a journey to roam along the seashores
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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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The basis of art is change in the universe.
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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