Matsuo Basho Quotes
- The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
- There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.
- Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
- The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
- When I speak My lips feel cold - The autumn wind.
- Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
- Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
- From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo
- Without the bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance to the whole world?
- Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
- Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps' nest.
- Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old - / These fields and mountains!
- I felt quite at home, / As if it were mine sleeping lazily / In this house of fresh air.
- Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
- A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.
- Along my journey / through this transitory world, / new year's housecleaning.
- Don't imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
- Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count -- / Festival of the Souls.
- All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
- Farewell, my old fan. / Having scribbled on it, / What could I do but tear it / At the end of summer?