For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
MATSUO BASHOFrom all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
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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.
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Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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I felt quite at home, / As if it were mine sleeping lazily / In this house of fresh air.
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Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.
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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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Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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