Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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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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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Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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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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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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The journey itself is my home.
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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
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April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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When composing a verse let there not be a hair’s breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy.
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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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