All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
MATSUO BASHOFresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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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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The journey itself is my home.
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Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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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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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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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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First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
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