Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
MATSUO BASHONot to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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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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First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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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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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.
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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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Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
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Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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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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The basis of art is change in the universe.
MATSUO BASHO