"Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty."
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"For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice."
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"Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone."
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"Along my journey / through this transitory world, / new year's housecleaning."
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"Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind."
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"Ballet in the air... Twin butterflies until, twice white They Meet, they mate"
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"Seek on high bare trails Sky-reflecting violets... Mountain-top jewels"
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"Old pond, leap-splash - a frog."
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"What is important is to keep our mind high in the world of true understanding, and returning to the world of our daily experience to seek therein the truth of beauty. No matter what we may be doing at a given moment, we must not forget that is has a bearing upon our everlasting self which is poetry."
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"I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden."
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"Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers' imperial dreams."
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"O cricket from your cherry cry No one would ever guess How quickly you must die."
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"I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories."
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"Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine."
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"The old pond, ah! A frog jumps in: The water's sound."
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"On a bare branch a crow is perched - autumn evening"
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"Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water - A deep resonance."
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"When I speak My lips feel cold - The autumn wind."
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"Traveler's heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire."
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"There came a day when the clouds drifting along with the wind aroused a wanderlust in me, and I set off on a journey to roam along the seashores"
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