The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.
MATSUO BASHOYear by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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The moon and sun are travelers through eternity. Even the years wander on. Whether drifting through life on a boat or climbing toward old age leading a horse, each day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
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Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.
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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.
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Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo. And in doing so, you must leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Otherwise you impose yourself on the object and you do not learn.
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