The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
MATSUO BASHOI hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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When your consciousness has become ripe in true zazen-pure like clear water, like a serene mountain lake, not moved by any wind-then anything may serve as a medium for realization.
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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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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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Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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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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Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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The journey itself is my home.
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Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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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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First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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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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