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The months and days are travelers through the ages, and the years that come and go are also wayfarers.

Matsuo BashoOku no Hosomichi

Note

This line sees time itself as a traveler, placing human life within a wider flow. It leans toward an external standard. Because it is brief, it can widen toward mortality, movement, and the quiet awareness that life is always passing and arriving at once.