Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
MATSUO BASHOI am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
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Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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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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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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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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Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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