When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
MATSUO BASHOOld dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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The journey itself is my home.
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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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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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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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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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I felt quite at home, / As if it were mine sleeping lazily / In this house of fresh air.
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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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Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
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