The universe and its beings are a complementarity of empty infinity, intimate interrelationships, and total uniqueness of each and every being.
MATSUO BASHOOld dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
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At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
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Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
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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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