Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
MATSUO BASHOThe oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
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A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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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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Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
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Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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When composing a verse let there not be a hair’s breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy.
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He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.
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