Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
MATSUO BASHOPlunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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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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The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, “I shall be unhappy without loneliness,” shows that he made loneliness his master.
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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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Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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The basis of art is change in the universe.
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The journey itself is my home.
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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.
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Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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