Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
MATSUO BASHONot to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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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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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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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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The journey itself is my home.
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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Make the universe your companion, always bearing in mind the true nature of things-mountains and rivers, trees and grasses, and humanity-and enjoy the falling blossoms and the scattering leaves.
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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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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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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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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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