With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
MATSUO BASHOThe oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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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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Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
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Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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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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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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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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