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.
MATSUO BASHOYear by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
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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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Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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The journey itself is my home.
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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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A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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