An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
MATSUO BASHOThe universe and its beings are a complementarity of empty infinity, intimate interrelationships, and total uniqueness of each and every being.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Farewell, my old fan. / Having scribbled on it, / What could I do but tear it / At the end of summer?
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Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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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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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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The journey itself is my home.
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Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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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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Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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Without bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance all over the world?
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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