This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
MATSUO BASHOOn a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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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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Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
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Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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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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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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I felt quite at home, / As if it were mine sleeping lazily / In this house of fresh air.
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A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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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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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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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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