Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
MATSUO BASHOWhen I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.
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A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.
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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo. And in doing so, you must leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Otherwise you impose yourself on the object and you do not learn.
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This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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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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