Matsuo Basho IV

Posted on May 27, 2022 | Leave a comment

“The summer grasses:

Of mighty warlords’ visions

All that they have left.”

Matsuo Basho, Poem (translation by Bernard Lionel Einbond)

Excerpted from: Schapiro, Fred, ed. The Yale Book of Quotations. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.

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