Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
MATSUO BASHOA flute with no holes is not a flute.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo. And in doing so, you must leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Otherwise you impose yourself on the object and you do not learn.
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Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
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Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
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April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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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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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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