Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.
MATSUO BASHOHow I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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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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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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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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Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo. And in doing so, you must leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Otherwise you impose yourself on the object and you do not learn.
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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
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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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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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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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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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