When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
MATSUO BASHOFrom all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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Go to the object. Leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Do not impose yourself on the object. Become one with the object. Plunge deep enough into the object to see something like a hidden glimmering there.
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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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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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The basis of art is change in the universe.
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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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When composing a verse let there not be a hair’s breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy.
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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