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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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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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Forget Inspirational Learning Rule
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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Flower Moon Nature See Thinking Yourself
The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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Bright Burn Moon One Liner
Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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Death Life Moments Poem
Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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Awake Ice Night Sound Water
Farewell, my old fan. / Having scribbled on it, / What could I do but tear it / At the end of summer?
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End Fan Myself Old Summer
Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
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Existence Plant Rope Twisted
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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Creation Life Master Poem Poet Time Writing
The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.
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Goodness Hide Mystery Poem Reveal
All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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Friendship Moon Ugly View
Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
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Calm Rock Serene Sound
Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
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Fire Heart Place Travel
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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Beginning Lonely Master Myself Poem
For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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Flower Food Love Poverty Togetherness
Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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Collection Rain River Water
Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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Live Nature Ourselves Tree

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