The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, “I shall be unhappy without loneliness,” shows that he made loneliness his master.
MATSUO BASHOThe temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
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Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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The moon and sun are travelers through eternity. Even the years wander on. Whether drifting through life on a boat or climbing toward old age leading a horse, each day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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