Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
MATSUO BASHOThere is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
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A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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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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Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.
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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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All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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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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Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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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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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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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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