Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
MATSUO BASHOThe temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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The journey itself is my home.
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Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, “I shall be unhappy without loneliness,” shows that he made loneliness his master.
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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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Without bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance all over the world?
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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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The moon and sun are travelers through eternity. Even the years wander on. Whether drifting through life on a boat or climbing toward old age leading a horse, each day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.
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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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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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