An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
MATSUO BASHOTraveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
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Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo. And in doing so, you must leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Otherwise you impose yourself on the object and you do not learn.
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A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.
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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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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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Without bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance all over the world?
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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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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The moon and sun are travelers through eternity. Even the years wander on. Whether drifting through life on a boat or climbing toward old age leading a horse, each day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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