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Description: Matsuo Bashō: Cold night: the wild duck, sick, falls from the sky and sleeps awhile. Analysis: This haiku captures a poignant moment in nature, depicting a wild duck's vulnerability on a cold night. The simplicity of the language and the brevity of the form convey a powerful image of the duck's plight, evoking both empathy and a sense of the harsh realities of the natural world. The poem's focus on a single moment in time is characteristic of haiku poetry, and the stark imagery is reminiscent of Basho's other works, such as his famous "Frog Pond" haiku. The poem also reflects the influence of Zen Buddhism, which emphasizes the beauty and impermanence of all things.

Description: Matsuo Bashō: Stillness— the cicada's cry drills into the rocks

Description: Matsuo Bashō quote: This snowy morning: cries of the crow I despise (ah, but so beautiful!)

Description: Matsuo Bashō quote: Glimpsed on this high mountain trail, delighting my heart— wild violets.

Description: Matsuo Bashō quote: On a withered branch A crow is perched An autumn evening

Description: Matsuo Bashō quote: The dragonfly can't quite land on that blade of grass.

Description: Matsuo Bashō (松尾芭蕉): The summer grasses— For many brave warriors The aftermath of dreams.

Description: Matsuo Bashō (松尾芭蕉): Sick on a journey – over parched fields dreams wander on.

Description: Matsuo Bashō (松尾芭蕉): 旅に病で 夢は枯野を かけ廻る Sick on a journey, my dreams wander the withered fields

Description: Matsuo Bashō (松尾芭蕉): 夏草や 兵どもが 夢の跡 The summer grasses— For many brave warriors The aftermath of dreams.

Description: Matsuo Bashō (松尾芭蕉): 夏草や 兵どもが 夢の跡 The summer grasses— For many brave warriors The aftermath of dreams.

Description: Matsuo Bashō quote: Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.

Description: Matsuo Bashō quote: Since the crescent moon, I have been waiting for tonight.

Description: Matsuo Bashō quote: There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; There is nothing you can think that is not the moon.

Description: Alexandre Dumas quote: Women are never so strong as after their defeat.

Description: Alexandre Dumas quote: “En général, on ne demande de conseils que pour ne pas les suivre ou, si on les a suivis, reprocher à quelqu'un de les avoir donnés.”

Description: Alexandre Dumas quote: You are young, and your bitter recollections have time to change themselves into sweet remembrances.

Description: Alexandre Dumas quote: People, in general, only ask advice not to follow it; or if they do follow it, it is for the sake of having someone to blame for having given it.

Description: Alexandre Dumas quote: Ne craignez pas les occasions et cherchez les aventures.

Description: Alexandre Dumas quote: Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.

Description: Alexandre Dumas quote: Moral wounds have this peculiarity,—they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.

Description: Alexandre Dumas quote:...that is the fate of truth; she is a stern companion; she bristles all over with steel; she wounds those whom she attacks, and sometimes him who speaks her.

Description: Alexandre Dumas quote:voilà ce que c’est que la vérité ! C’est une dure compagne ! elle est hérissée de fer ; elle blesse qui elle atteint, et parfois aussi qui la dit.

Description: Alexandre Dumas quote: My friend, the pleasures to which we are not accustomed oppress us more than the griefs with which we are familiar.

Description: Alexandre Dumas quote: Mon ami, les plaisirs auxquels on n’est pas habitué gênent plus que les chagrins dont on avait l’habitude.

Description: Alexandre Dumas quote: For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.

Description: Alexandre Dumas quote: Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather.

Description: Alexandre Dumas quote: We are always in a hurry to be happy...; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.

Description: Alexandre Dumas quote: I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.

Description: Alexandre Dumas quote: Every man has a devouring passion in his heart, as every fruit has its worm;

Description: Alexandre Dumas quote: I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.

Description: Alexandre Dumas quote: There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die...that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.

Description: Alexandre Dumas quote: All for one, one for all.

Description: Alexandre Dumas quote: Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget that until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,—‘ Wait and hope .’

Description: Alexandre Dumas quote: Tous pour un, un pour tous.

Description: Hunter S. Thompson quote: Frankly, I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left me.