Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
MATSUO BASHOThe desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Go to the object. Leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Do not impose yourself on the object. Become one with the object. Plunge deep enough into the object to see something like a hidden glimmering there.
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Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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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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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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No matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it.
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Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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I felt quite at home, / As if it were mine sleeping lazily / In this house of fresh air.
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The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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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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