The journey itself is my home.
MATSUO BASHOFirst snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
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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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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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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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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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Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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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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Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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