No matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it.
MATSUO BASHOSpring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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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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Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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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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Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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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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Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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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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