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.
MATSUO BASHOFirst snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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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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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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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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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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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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Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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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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The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.
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