Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.
MATSUO BASHONo matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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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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When your consciousness has become ripe in true zazen-pure like clear water, like a serene mountain lake, not moved by any wind-then anything may serve as a medium for realization.
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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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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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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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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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