Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
MATSUO BASHO
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.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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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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Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
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The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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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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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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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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Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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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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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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