What did Matsuo Basho mean by: The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white. - Matsuo Basho Poet · Japan Copy
+ Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River. Feraz Zeid, June 24, 2023December 12, 2023, Matsuo Basho, Rain, Rivers, Water, 0 - Matsuo Basho Poet · Japan
+ Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash! Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Matsuo Basho, Dark, Frogs, Unexpected, 0 - Matsuo Basho Poet · Japan
+ Learn about a pine tree from a pine tree, and about a bamboo plant from a bamboo plant. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Matsuo Basho, Learn, 0 - Matsuo Basho Poet · Japan
+ April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves…a butterfly Floats and balances Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Matsuo Basho, Air, Butterfly, Spring, 0 - Matsuo Basho Poet · Japan
+ Twilight whippoorwill… Whistle on, sweet deepener Of dark loneliness Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Matsuo Basho, Loneliness, Sweet, 0 - Matsuo Basho Poet · Japan
+ Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Matsuo Basho, Spring, 0 - Matsuo Basho Poet · Japan
+ A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Matsuo Basho, Dream, Summer, Warrior, 0 - Matsuo Basho Poet · Japan
+ Come, see the true flowers of this pained world. Feraz Zeid, September 7, 2023December 26, 2023, Matsuo Basho, Flower, 0 - Matsuo Basho Poet · Japan
Nothing is lost and nothing is created in the operations of art as those of nature. - Louis Pasteur Microbiologist · France
But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature. - Michel de Montaigne Philosopher · France
If I were of the trade, I should naturalize art as much as they “artialize” nature. - Michel de Montaigne Philosopher · France
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. - Jean Giraudoux Playwright · France
Healing,’ Papa would tell me, ‘is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.’ - W. H. Auden Poet · England
The rumble of the life outside was like the sound of the sea which was rising gradually around her. - Jean Rhys Writer · Dominica
The sea and wind can at the same time convey my neighbour’s vessel and my own. - Jean-Baptiste Say Economist · France
