Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
MATSUO BASHOTraveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
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Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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The basis of art is change in the universe.
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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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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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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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The journey itself is my home.
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The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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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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I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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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.
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