All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
MATSUO BASHOThe fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, “I shall be unhappy without loneliness,” shows that he made loneliness his master.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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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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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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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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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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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.
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Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the 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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Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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