Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
MATSUO BASHOCome out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.
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At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
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Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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No matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it.
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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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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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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Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
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Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
MATSUO BASHO