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Quotes from Oku no Hosomichi - The Narrow Road to the Interior — Matsuo Bashō

1644–1694 Japan

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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.

Oku no Hosomichi - The Narrow Road to the Interior (1702)

The summer grasses—
For many brave warriors
The aftermath of dreams.

Oku no Hosomichi - The Narrow Road to the Interior (1702)

Spring passes
and the birds cry out—tears
in the eyes of fishes

Oku no Hosomichi - The Narrow Road to the Interior (1702)

How still it is!
Stinging into the stones,
The locusts' trill.

Oku no Hosomichi - The Narrow Road to the Interior (1702)

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