Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
MATSUO BASHOThe temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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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I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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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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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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