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Matsuo Basho Quotes about Moon

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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.

There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.

Matsuo Basho
Flower, Moon, Thinking

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 leading a horse, each day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.

Matsuo Basho
Horse, Home, Moon

The moon is brighter since the barn burned.

Matsuo Basho
Moon, Barns, Burned

Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.

Matsuo Basho
Winter, Moon, Garden
Matsuo Basho, “Winter Garden”

How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers

Matsuo Basho
Flower, Moon, Desire
Matsuo Basho (2006). “Narrow Road to the Interior”, p.172, Shambhala Publications

Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.

Matsuo Basho
Summer, Moon, Echoes

Poverty's child - he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.

Matsuo Basho
Children, Moon, Poverty
Matsuo Basho, “None Is Travelling”

All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.

Matsuo Basho
Moon, Ugly, Bunch

Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.

Matsuo Basho
Moon, Night, Ponds

Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end - tonight's moon

Matsuo Basho
Cutting, Moon, July

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