Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
MATSUO BASHOWhy so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
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A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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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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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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