Without bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance all over the world?
MATSUO BASHOAll my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, “I shall be unhappy without loneliness,” shows that he made loneliness his master.
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
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There came a day when the clouds drifting along with the wind aroused a wanderlust in me, and I set off on a journey to roam along the seashores
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Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
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All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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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 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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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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