From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
MATSUO BASHOBefore enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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The journey itself is my home.
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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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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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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 sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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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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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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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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