Without bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance all over the world?
MATSUO BASHOI felt quite at home, / As if it were mine sleeping lazily / In this house of fresh air.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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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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Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.
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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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