Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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The basis of art is change in the universe.
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Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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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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Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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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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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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First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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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.
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