Matsuo Basho Quotes - Page 3

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• My body, now close to fifty years of age, has become an old tree that bears bitter peaches, a snail which has lost its shell, a bagworm separated from its bag; it drifts with the winds and clouds that know no destination. Morning and night I have eaten traveler's fare, and have held out for alms a pilgrim's wallet.

  Matsuo Basho

  Morning, Night, Clouds

  "Anthology of Japanese literature". Book by Donald Keene, 1955.

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• I hope to have gathered
  To repay your kindness
  The willow leaves
  Scattered in the garden.

  Matsuo Basho

  Kindness, Garden

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• Don't imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.

  Matsuo Basho

  Two, Half

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• Mountain-rose petals Falling, falling, falling now... Waterfall music

  Matsuo Basho

  Fall, Rose, Mountain

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• Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers' imperial dreams.

  Matsuo Basho

  Summer, Dream, Soldier

  "Narrow Road to the Interior".

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• April's air stirs in Willow-leaves...a butterfly Floats and balances

  Matsuo Basho

  Spring, Butterfly, Air

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• I felt quite at home, / As if it were mine sleeping lazily / In this house of fresh air.

  Matsuo Basho

  Home, Sleep, Air

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• Year's end, all
  corners of this
  floating world, swept.

  Matsuo Basho

  Holiday, Winter, Years

  Matsuo Basho, “Year’s End,”

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• Learn about a pine tree from a pine tree, and about a bamboo plant from a bamboo plant.

  Matsuo Basho

  Learning, Tree, Bamboo

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• O cricket from your cherry cry
  No one would ever guess
  How quickly you must die.

  Matsuo Basho

  Garden, Cry, Insects

  Bash? Matsuo, Basho, Asataro Miyamori (2002). “Classic Haiku: An Anthology of Poems by Basho and His Followers”, p.89, Courier Corporation

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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.

  Matsuo Basho

  Three, Lifetime, Poet

  "Collected Haiku Theory". Book by Matsuo Bashō, 1951.

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• Seek on high bare trails Sky-reflecting violets... Mountain-top jewels

  Matsuo Basho

  Jewels, Sky, Mountain

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• Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice

  Matsuo Basho

  Ice, Water, Sound

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• Sabi is the color of haikai. It is different from tranquility. For example, if an old man dresses up in armor and helmet and goes to the battlefield, or in colorful brocade kimono, attending (his lord) at a banquet, [sabi] is like this old figure.

  Matsuo Basho

  Men, Color, Example

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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.

  Matsuo Basho

  Loneliness, Unhappy, Facts

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• Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.

  Matsuo Basho

  Flower, Views, Blooming

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• Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.

  Matsuo Basho

  Summer, Moon, Echoes

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• A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.

  Matsuo Basho

  Summer, Dream, Warrior

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• Friends part foreverwild geese lost in cloud

  Matsuo Basho

  Clouds, Lost, Geese

  c.1689 On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho, no.219 (translated by Lucien Stryk)

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• Poverty's child - he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.

  Matsuo Basho

  Children, Moon, Poverty

  Matsuo Basho, “None Is Travelling”

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• Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count -- / Festival of the Souls.

  Matsuo Basho

  Thinking, Soul, Festivals

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• Along my journey / through this transitory world, / new year's housecleaning.

  Matsuo Basho

  New Year, Journey, Years

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• Twilight whippoorwill... Whistle on, sweet deepener Of dark loneliness

  Matsuo Basho

  Sweet, Loneliness, Twilight

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• Ballet in the air... Twin butterflies until, twice white They Meet, they mate

  Matsuo Basho

  Butterfly, Air, White

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• Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.

  Matsuo Basho

  Cutting, Two, Individuality

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