Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
MATSUO BASHOBetween our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.
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Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.
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Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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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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A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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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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Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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