What did Matsuo Basho mean by: The old pond, ah! A frog jumps in: The water’s sound. Matsuo Basho Poet · Japan Copy
+ Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die Author, September 27, 2023January 2, 2025, Matsuo Basho, Deception, Life, Resilience, 0 Matsuo Basho Poet · Japan
+ How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God. Author, June 26, 2023January 2, 2025, Matsuo Basho, Beauty, Longing, Spiritual, 0 Matsuo Basho Poet · Japan
A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Matsuo Basho, Loss, Nature, Persistence, 0 Matsuo Basho Poet · Japan
Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Matsuo Basho, Loss, Nature, Power, 0 Matsuo Basho Poet · Japan
+ The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white. Author, August 29, 2023January 2, 2025, Matsuo Basho, Beauty, Contrast, Nature, 0 Matsuo Basho Poet · Japan
Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Matsuo Basho, Beauty, Nature, Tranquility, 0 Matsuo Basho Poet · Japan
Along my journey / through this transitory world, / new year’s housecleaning. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Matsuo Basho, Journey, 0 Matsuo Basho Poet · Japan
+ Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River. Author, June 24, 2023January 2, 2025, Matsuo Basho, Collection, Nature, 0 Matsuo Basho Poet · Japan
The real function of art is to change mental patterns … making new thought possible. Jean Dubuffet Artist · France
The course of a river is almost always disapproved of by the source. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
I just love the world around me and wanted my audience to love and appreciate it too. Jean Craighead George
