Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
MATSUO BASHOHow I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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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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Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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Make the universe your companion, always bearing in mind the true nature of things-mountains and rivers, trees and grasses, and humanity-and enjoy the falling blossoms and the scattering leaves.
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Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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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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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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Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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