Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
MATSUO BASHOOld pond, frog jumps in – plop.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
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Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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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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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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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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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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When composing a verse let there not be a hair’s breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy.
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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