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Matsuo Basho

There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.
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Flower Moon Nature See Thinking Yourself
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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Breathe Compose Dangerous Enemy Fall Hairs Mindset Tree Writing
Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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Insect Old Pond Sing Winter
How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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Face Flower God Myself See
Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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Cloud Forever Friendship Lost Wild
Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
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Old Pond
First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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Bridge Fall Snow
Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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Day Destination Home Journey
When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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Autumn Cold Feeling Lips Myself Talk Voice Wind
Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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Awake Ice Night Sound Water
How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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Desire Flower Moon Myself
Farewell, my old fan. / Having scribbled on it, / What could I do but tear it / At the end of summer?
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End Fan Myself Old Summer
Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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Fall Moon Night Tree
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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Beginning Lonely Master Myself Poem
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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Empty Intimate Relationship Unique Universe
I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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Eat Fast Glory Morning Myself

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