How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
MATSUO BASHOLearn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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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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Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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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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Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
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I felt quite at home, / As if it were mine sleeping lazily / In this house of fresh air.
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The basis of art is change in the universe.
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Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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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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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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