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 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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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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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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Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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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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Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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The universe and its beings are a complementarity of empty infinity, intimate interrelationships, and total uniqueness of each and every being.
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Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.
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There came a day when the clouds drifting along with the wind aroused a wanderlust in me, and I set off on a journey to roam along the seashores
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Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
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I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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