The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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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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Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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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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No matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it.
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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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Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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