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Quotes About Reflection

Come, see real flowers of this painful world.
~ Matsuo Bash?
It is only a barbarous mind that sees other than the flower, merely an animal mind that dreams of other than the moon.
~ Matsuo Bash?
Had I crossed the pass Supported by a stick, I would have spared myself The fall from the horse.
~ Matsuo Bash?
Everyone in this house has gray hair, walks with a cane, visits the graveyard
~ Matsuo Bash?
An old silent pond... A frog jumps into the pond, splash! Silence again.
~ Matsuo Bash?
Should I hold it in my hand, it will melt in my burning tears. Autumnal frost.
~ Matsuo Bash?
Year by year/The monkey's mask/Reveals the monkey.
~ Matsuo Bash?
Many things of the past Are brought to my mind, As I stand in the garden Staring at a cherry tree.
~ Matsuo Bash?
Falling ill on a journey, my dreams wander the withered fields
~ Matsuo Bash?
Wintery day, On my horse A frozen shadow.
~ Matsuo Bash?
Coming home at last At the end of the year I wept to find My old umbilical cord.
~ Matsuo Bash?
Old yam digger     please explain            this mountain's sorrows
~ Matsuo Bash?
Even in Kyoto     longing for Kyoto            hototogisu
~ Matsuo Bash?
A bush-warbler, Coming to the verandah-edge, Left its droppings On the rice-cakes.
~ Matsuo Bash?
There are also times when we feel like taking to the road ourselves, seizing the raincoat lying nearby, or times when we feel like sitting down till our legs take root, enjoying the scene we picture before our eyes. (Written by Soryu as a postscript)
~ Matsuo Bash?
Come, let's go Snow-viewing Till we're buried.
~ Matsuo Bash?
Sick while traveling dream of a withered field wandering around
~ Matsuo Bash?
I do not seek to walk in the paths of the wise men of old, I seek what they sought.
~ Matsuo Bash?
Violets – how precious on a mountain path.
~ Matsuo Bash?
El viejo estanque una rana se sumerge ruido de agua
~ Matsuo Bash?
I felt deeply in my heart both the sorrow of one that goes and the grief of one that remains, just as a solitary bird separated from his flock in dark clouds, and wrote in answer: From this day forth, alas, The dew-drops shall wash away The letters on my hat Saying 'A party of two'.
~ Matsuo Bash?
Moon almost full I'm thirty-nine a child still
~ Matsuo Bash?
In my new robe/This morning-/Someone else
~ Matsuo Bash?
Year's end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
~ Matsuo Bash?