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Matsuo Basho84 quotes“Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.”
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Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
Matsuo BashoMatsuo Basho On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
Matsuo BashoMatsuo Basho From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
Matsuo BashoMatsuo Basho There came a day when the clouds drifting along with the wind aroused a wanderlust in me, and I set off on a journey to roam along the seashores
Matsuo BashoMatsuo Basho I felt quite at home, / As if it were mine sleeping lazily / In this house of fresh air.
Matsuo BashoMatsuo Basho Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
Matsuo BashoMatsuo Basho When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
Matsuo BashoMatsuo Basho Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
Matsuo BashoMatsuo Basho Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
Matsuo BashoMatsuo Basho From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
Matsuo BashoMatsuo Basho The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, “I shall be unhappy without loneliness,” shows that he made loneliness his master.
Matsuo BashoMatsuo Basho Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.
Matsuo BashoMatsuo Basho The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
Matsuo BashoMatsuo Basho Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
Matsuo BashoMatsuo Basho When your consciousness has become ripe in true zazen-pure like clear water, like a serene mountain lake, not moved by any wind-then anything may serve as a medium for realization.
Matsuo BashoMatsuo Basho Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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