No matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it.
MATSUO BASHOA weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
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The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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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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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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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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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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The journey itself is my home.
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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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Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.
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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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