Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.
MATSUO BASHOFirst snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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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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Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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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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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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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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Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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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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Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
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Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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