Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
MATSUO BASHOHow much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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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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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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The universe and its beings are a complementarity of empty infinity, intimate interrelationships, and total uniqueness of each and every being.
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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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A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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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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The basis of art is change in the universe.
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First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
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Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.
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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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