The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
MATSUO BASHOThe desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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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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I felt quite at home, / As if it were mine sleeping lazily / In this house of fresh air.
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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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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Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
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Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, “I shall be unhappy without loneliness,” shows that he made loneliness his master.
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First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.
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