Matsuo Basho Quotes - Page 3

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

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Kindness, Garden

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Orchidbreathing incense into butterfly's wings

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Butterfly, Wings, Incense

c.1689 On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho, no.166 (translated by Lucien Stryk).

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

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Spring, Butterfly, Air

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

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Fall, Rose, Mountain

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

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Two, Half

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

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Summer, Dream, Soldier

"Narrow Road to the Interior".

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

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Jewels, Sky, Mountain

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

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Home, Sleep, Air

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

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Summer, Moon, Echoes

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

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Learning, Tree, Bamboo

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

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Holiday, Winter, Years

Matsuo Basho, “Year’s End,”

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

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Ice, Water, Sound

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

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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.

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Three, Lifetime, Poet

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

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

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Flower, Views, Blooming

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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.

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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.

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Loneliness, Unhappy, Facts

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

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Summer, Dream, Warrior

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Friends part foreverwild geese lost in cloud

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Clouds, Lost, Geese

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

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

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Thinking, Soul, Festivals

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

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Children, Moon, Poverty

Matsuo Basho, “None Is Travelling”

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On a bare branch a crow is perched - autumn evening

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Autumn, Crow, Evening

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

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New Year, Journey, Years

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

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Butterfly, Air, White

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

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Sweet, Loneliness, Twilight

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Born: 1644
Died: November 28, 1694
Occupation: Poet
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