Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
MATSUO BASHOMake 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.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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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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This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
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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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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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