When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
MATSUO BASHOThe temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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Without bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance all over the world?
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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The basis of art is change in the universe.
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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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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He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.
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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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