Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
MATSUO BASHOYear by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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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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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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Go to the object. Leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Do not impose yourself on the object. Become one with the object. Plunge deep enough into the object to see something like a hidden glimmering there.
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The universe and its beings are a complementarity of empty infinity, intimate interrelationships, and total uniqueness of each and every being.
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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.
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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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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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A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.
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Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
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Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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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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