Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
MATSUO BASHO
Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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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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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.
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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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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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Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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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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Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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The journey itself is my home.
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Make the universe your companion, always bearing in mind the true nature of things-mountains and rivers, trees and grasses, and humanity-and enjoy the falling blossoms and the scattering leaves.
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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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