Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
MATSUO BASHOBetween our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, “I shall be unhappy without loneliness,” shows that he made loneliness his master.
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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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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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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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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo. And in doing so, you must leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Otherwise you impose yourself on the object and you do not learn.
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Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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