Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.
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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Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
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A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.
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Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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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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The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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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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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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