Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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 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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Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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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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All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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Go to the object. Leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Do not impose yourself on the object. Become one with the object. Plunge deep enough into the object to see something like a hidden glimmering there.
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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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