Without bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance all over the world?
MATSUO BASHOA weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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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The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, “I shall be unhappy without loneliness,” shows that he made loneliness his master.
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All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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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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Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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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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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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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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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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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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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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