At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
MATSUO BASHOReal poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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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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Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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The journey itself is my home.
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Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
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Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo. And in doing so, you must leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Otherwise you impose yourself on the object and you do not learn.
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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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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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Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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