Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
MATSUO BASHODo not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
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First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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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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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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Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.
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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
MATSUO BASHO






