I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
MATSUO BASHOWinter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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Farewell, my old fan. / Having scribbled on it, / What could I do but tear it / At the end of summer?
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Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
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Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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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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