Make the universe your companion, always bearing in mind the true nature of things-mountains and rivers, trees and grasses, and humanity-and enjoy the falling blossoms and the scattering leaves.
MATSUO BASHOWithout bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance all over the world?
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
-
-
Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
MATSUO BASHO -
Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
MATSUO BASHO -
Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
MATSUO BASHO -
The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
MATSUO BASHO -
How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
MATSUO BASHO -
Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
MATSUO BASHO -
On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
MATSUO BASHO -
Without bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance all over the world?
MATSUO BASHO -
Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
MATSUO BASHO -
I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
MATSUO BASHO -
Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
MATSUO BASHO -
The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
MATSUO BASHO -
Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
MATSUO BASHO -
This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
MATSUO BASHO -
An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
MATSUO BASHO