Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
MATSUO BASHOThe oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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Make the universe your companion, always bearing in mind the true nature of things-mountains and rivers, trees and grasses, and humanity-and enjoy the falling blossoms and the scattering leaves.
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Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.
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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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Without bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance all over the world?
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Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
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The journey itself is my home.
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The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.
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Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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