There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.
MATSUO BASHO
Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.
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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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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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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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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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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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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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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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April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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