This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
MATSUO BASHOWinter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo. And in doing so, you must leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Otherwise you impose yourself on the object and you do not learn.
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A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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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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He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.
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Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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