When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
MATSUO BASHOThe journey itself is my home.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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The basis of art is change in the universe.
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First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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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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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, “I shall be unhappy without loneliness,” shows that he made loneliness his master.
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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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A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.
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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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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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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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