How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
MATSUO BASHOYear’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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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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When your consciousness has become ripe in true zazen-pure like clear water, like a serene mountain lake, not moved by any wind-then anything may serve as a medium for realization.
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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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Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
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This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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No matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it.
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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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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The basis of art is change in the universe.
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First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
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Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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