How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
MATSUO BASHOLearn the rules, and then forget them.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.
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Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
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There came a day when the clouds drifting along with the wind aroused a wanderlust in me, and I set off on a journey to roam along the seashores
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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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He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.
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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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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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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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