Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
MATSUO BASHOBetween our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
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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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Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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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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The journey itself is my home.
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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
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April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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