Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
MATSUO BASHOThe haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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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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Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
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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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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.
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Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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Without bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance all over the world?
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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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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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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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There came a day when the clouds drifting along with the wind aroused a wanderlust in me, and I set off on a journey to roam along the seashores
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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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