How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
MATSUO BASHOCome out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.
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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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Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
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Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
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A flute with no holes is not a flute.
MATSUO BASHO