Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
MATSUO BASHOOld pond, leap-splash – a frog.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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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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Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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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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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 basis of art is change in the universe.
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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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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