Matsuo Basho on day
Matsuo Basho84 quotes“Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.”
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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
Matsuo BashoMatsuo Basho Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
Matsuo BashoMatsuo Basho Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
Matsuo BashoMatsuo Basho The universe and its beings are a complementarity of empty infinity, intimate interrelationships, and total uniqueness of each and every being.
Matsuo BashoMatsuo Basho The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
Matsuo BashoMatsuo Basho Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
Matsuo BashoMatsuo Basho Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
Matsuo BashoMatsuo Basho Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
Matsuo BashoMatsuo Basho Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
Matsuo BashoMatsuo Basho Learn the rules, and then forget them.
Matsuo BashoMatsuo Basho 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.
Matsuo BashoMatsuo Basho Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
Matsuo BashoMatsuo Basho This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
Matsuo BashoMatsuo Basho Farewell, my old fan. / Having scribbled on it, / What could I do but tear it / At the end of summer?
Matsuo BashoMatsuo Basho Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
Matsuo BashoMatsuo Basho Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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Astha SrivastavaAstha Srivastava Steal back your heart – self-love.
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BelaBela An open mind opens our hearts to have compassion for others.
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The world gets better every day – then worse again in the evening.
Kin HubbardKin Hubbard September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life into a poem, story, a chapter of a novel, when terror pounced from the sky, and the world made witness to it.
Nadine GordimerNadine Gordimer We are the most focused company that I know of or have read of or have any knowledge of. We say no to good ideas every day.
Tim CookTim Cook Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
Anthony TrollopeAnthony Trollope And then you walk into a room one day, whether it’s at university or an office or some kind of club, and you just go, ‘Ah. There they are.’ And suddenly you feel at home.
Jojo MoyesJojo Moyes I play the piano passionately and inaccurately. Indeed, I worked out the other day that of my seventy-five years; I have spent at least one year sitting on a piano stool.
William GoldingWilliam Golding Curse us eh/I’ll make you pay!/I don’t want to rhyme all day!
Rick RiordanRick Riordan Colombia is not how people think it is. We used to eat fish every Sunday at the beach. In the town where I grew up, people did not tell lies.
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