For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
MATSUO BASHOThe 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.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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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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Every 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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Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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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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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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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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Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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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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