An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
MATSUO BASHOHarvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
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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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Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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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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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
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Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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