For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
MATSUO BASHOFresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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The universe and its beings are a complementarity of empty infinity, intimate interrelationships, and total uniqueness of each and every being.
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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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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Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
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Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
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The journey itself is my home.
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Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
MATSUO BASHO