The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
MATSUO BASHO
The basis of art is change in the universe.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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No matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it.
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The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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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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Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
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A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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The journey itself is my home.
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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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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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