Quotes by : Bashō Matsuo

When a country is defeated, there remain only mountains and rivers, and on a ruined castle in spring....

Had I crossed the passSupported by a stick,I would have spared myselfThe fall from the horse.

Here is a greedy man who keeps to himselfThe beautiful pears ripe in his garden.

ChrysanthemumSilence - monk Sips his morning tea.

It is only a barbarous mind that sees other than the flower, merely an animal mind that dreams of other....

Many solemn nights Blond moon, we stand and marvel...Sleeping our noons away

Winter solitude-in a world of one colourthe sound of the wind.

On this roadwhere nobody else travelsautumn nightfall.

The journey itself is my home.

Summer grasses,All that remainsOf soldiers' dreams