Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
MATSUO BASHOCome, see the true flowers of this pained world.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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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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Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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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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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.
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Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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I felt quite at home, / As if it were mine sleeping lazily / In this house of fresh air.
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Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
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This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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The moon and sun are travelers through eternity. Even the years wander on. Whether drifting through life on a boat or climbing toward old age leading a horse, each day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
MATSUO BASHO