Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
MATSUO BASHOSitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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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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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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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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Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
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Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
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First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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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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