Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
MATSUO BASHOOn a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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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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Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
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All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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Farewell, my old fan. / Having scribbled on it, / What could I do but tear it / At the end of summer?
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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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Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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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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