Plum Blossoms Quotes by Matsuo Basho

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• 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!

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