How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
MATSUO BASHOGo 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.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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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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The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, “I shall be unhappy without loneliness,” shows that he made loneliness his master.
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A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.
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Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
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Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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