Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
MATSUO BASHOThe oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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The basis of art is change in the universe.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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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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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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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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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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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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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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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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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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