Without bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance all over the world?
MATSUO BASHOI am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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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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Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
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Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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The universe and its beings are a complementarity of empty infinity, intimate interrelationships, and total uniqueness of each and every being.
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A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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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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