"Just washed, How chill The white leeks!"
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Matsuo Basho quotes (page 5 of 6)
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"Farewell, my old fan. / Having scribbled on it, / What could I do but tear it / At the end of summer?"
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"Poverty's child - he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon."
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"Now the swinging bridge Is quieted with creepers ... Like our tendrilled life."
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"Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing."
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"This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds."
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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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"Year's end, all corners of this floating world, swept."
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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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"Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River."
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"Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end - tonight's moon"
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"Twilight whippoorwill... Whistle on, sweet deepener Of dark loneliness"
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"Don't imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon."
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"Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old - / These fields and mountains!"
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"Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops."
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"At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water"
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"If I had the knack I'd sing like Cherry flakes falling"
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"Old dark sleepy pool... Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!"
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"A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors."
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"First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge."
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