Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
MATSUO BASHODo not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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When your consciousness has become ripe in true zazen-pure like clear water, like a serene mountain lake, not moved by any wind-then anything may serve as a medium for realization.
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Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
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Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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Farewell, my old fan. / Having scribbled on it, / What could I do but tear it / At the end of summer?
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