Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
MATSUO BASHOWinter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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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Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
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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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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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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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Farewell, my old fan. / Having scribbled on it, / What could I do but tear it / At the end of summer?
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Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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