All Matsuo Basho Quotes
- Ballet in the air... Twin butterflies until, twice white They Meet, they mate Air
- Seek on high bare trails Sky-reflecting violets... Mountain-top jewels Bare
- For a lovely bowl Let us arrange these flowers... For there is no rice Arrange
- April's air stirs in Willow-leaves...a butterfly Floats and balances Air
- Twilight whippoorwill... Whistle on, sweet deepener Of dark loneliness Dark
- Mountain-rose petals Falling, falling, falling now... Waterfall music Fall
- Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice... Or backyard love? Backyard
- Old dark sleepy pool... Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash! Dark
- How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers Desire
- Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die Cicadas
- Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home. Day
- In this poor body, composed of one hundred bones and nine openings, is something called spirit, a flimsy curtain swept this way and that by… Almost Gave
- From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall. All
- Seek not to follow in the footsteps of men of old; seek what they sought. Follow