“Year’s end, all
corners of this
floating world, swept.”
Matsuo Bashō
more infosource: On Love and Barley: Haiku of Bashō (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1985), 59.
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category: December, haiku, new year
medium: Poetry
“With a hat on my head
And straw sandals on my feet,
I met on the road
The end of the year.”
Matsuo Bashō
more infosource: The Narrow Road to the Deep North, and Other Travel Sketches (New York: Penguin, 1966), 60.
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“It is the month of December, and yet the whole city is in a sweat!”
Seneca
more infosource: Letter XVIII, in Letters from a Stoic (London: Penguin, 1969), 66.
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category: celebration, December, holiday
medium: letter
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December