The moon and sun are travelers through eternity. Even the years wander on. Whether drifting through life on a boat or climbing toward old age leading a horse, each day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
MATSUO BASHOFrom all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
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Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
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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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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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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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