How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
MATSUO BASHOWhen I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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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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Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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Make 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.
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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
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Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.
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Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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