Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
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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Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.
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Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
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Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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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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No matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it.
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The universe and its beings are a complementarity of empty infinity, intimate interrelationships, and total uniqueness of each and every being.
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.
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