Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
MATSUO BASHOEvery moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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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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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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Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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No matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it.
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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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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A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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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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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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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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