Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
MATSUO BASHOA weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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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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Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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The moon and sun are travelers through eternity. Even the years wander on. Whether drifting through life on a boat or climbing toward old age leading a horse, each day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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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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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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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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Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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When composing a verse let there not be a hair’s breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy.
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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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