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Matsuo Bashō quotes - page 2
Bird of time – in Kyoto, pining for Kyoto.
Matsuo Bashō
A flute with no holes is not a flute.
Matsuo Bashō
Come, butterfly It's late- We've miles to go together.
Matsuo Bashō
The journey itself is my home.
Matsuo Bashō
Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
Matsuo Bashō
April's air stirs in Willow-leaves... a butterfly Floats and balances.
Matsuo Bashō
Mountain-rose petals Falling, falling, falling now... Waterfall music.
Matsuo Bashō
Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
Matsuo Bashō
Old dark sleepy pool... Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
Matsuo Bashō
The summer grasses- For many brave warriors The aftermath of dreams.
Matsuo Bashō
I shall be unhappy without loneliness.
Matsuo Bashō
Sabi is the color of the poem. It does not necessarily refer to the poem that describes a lonely scene. If a man goes to war wearing stout armor or to a party dressed up in gay clothes, and if this man happens to be an old man, there is something lonely about him. Sabi is something like that.
Matsuo Bashō
Spring passes and the birds cry out-tears in the eyes of fishes.
Matsuo Bashō
Soon to die yet showing no sign the cicada's voice.
Matsuo Bashō
The old pond: A frog jumps in,- The sound of the water.
Matsuo Bashō
Sick on a journey, my dreams wander the withered fields.
Matsuo Bashō
I am that one person Who eats his breakfast, Gazing at morning nothing.
Matsuo Bashō
Sick on a journey, my dreams wander the withered fields. Bashō's last poem, written while he was dying of a stomach illness.
Matsuo Bashō
Many solemn nights Blond moon, we stand and marvel... Sleeping our noons away.
Matsuo Bashō
Who mourns makes grief his master. Who drinks makes pleasure his master.
Matsuo Bashō
All Heaven and Earth Flowered white obliterate... Snow... unceasing snow.
Matsuo Bashō
At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
Matsuo Bashō
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