On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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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At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
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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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Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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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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Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
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Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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