Basho Matsuo Quotes

#1. Moon woke me up
nine times
- still just 4 a.m.

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#2. dozing on horseback
smoke form the tea-fires
drifts to the moon

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

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#4. Don't touch my plumtree!
Said my friend and saying so...
Broke the branch for me

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#5. Lonely stillness - a single cicada's cry sinking into stone

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#6. Even in Kyoto longing for Kyoto hototogisu

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#7. The past remains hidden in clouds of memory.

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#8. you make the fire
and I'll show you something wonderful:
a big ball of snow!

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#9. The journey itself is my home.

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#10. Moonlit plum tree-
wait,
spring will come.

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#11. All Heaven and Earth
Flowered white obliterate...
Snow...unceasing snow

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#12. Cormorant fishing:
How stirring,
How saddening

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#13. Amorous cat, alas
You too must yowl with your love...
or even worse, without!

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#14. Hidden and unknown
Like the new moon
I will live my life

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#15. Along this road goes no one, this autumn eve.

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#16. Wintery day,
On my horse
A frozen shadow.

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#17. Come, let's go
Snow-viewing
Till we're buried.

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

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#19. on this mountain
sorrow...tell me about it
digger of wild yams

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#20. Old pond - frogs jumped in - sound of water

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#21. Many solemn nights
Blond moon, we stand and marvel...
Sleeping our noons away

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#22. In my new robe
this morning -
someone else.

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#23. Old yam digger please explain this mountain's sorrows

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#24. Come, see real
flowers
of this painful world

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