For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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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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Without bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance all over the world?
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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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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the 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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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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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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