Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
MATSUO BASHOThe oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, “I shall be unhappy without loneliness,” shows that he made loneliness his master.
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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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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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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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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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