How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
MATSUO BASHONot to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.
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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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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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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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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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The basis of art is change in the universe.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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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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Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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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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