Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
MATSUO BASHOSadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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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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First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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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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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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