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Life Quotes by Matsuo Basho
- Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
- Without the bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance to the whole world?
- Now the swinging bridge Is quieted with creepers ... Like our tendrilled life.
- An autumn night - don’t think your life didn’t matter.
- Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
- Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
- The moon and sun are travelers through eternity. Even the years wander on. Whether drifting through life on a boat or climbing toward old age…
- 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…
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