The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
MATSUO BASHONothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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There came a day when the clouds drifting along with the wind aroused a wanderlust in me, and I set off on a journey to roam along the seashores
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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.
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Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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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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