Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
MATSUO BASHOOld dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
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A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.
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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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I felt quite at home, / As if it were mine sleeping lazily / In this house of fresh air.
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A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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There came a day when the clouds drifting along with the wind aroused a wanderlust in me, and I set off on a journey to roam along the seashores
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Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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The journey itself is my home.
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The universe and its beings are a complementarity of empty infinity, intimate interrelationships, and total uniqueness of each and every being.
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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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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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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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Farewell, my old fan. / Having scribbled on it, / What could I do but tear it / At the end of summer?
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