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Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.

Matsuo Basho

Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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Awake Ice Night Sound Water
With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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Butterfly Change Mindset Place
The basis of art is change in the universe.
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Art Change One Liner Universe
Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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Death Life Moments Poem
Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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Deep Learning Listen Nature Talk Wisdom
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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Beginning Lonely Master Myself Poem
The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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Bright Burn Moon One Liner
Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo. And in doing so, you must leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Otherwise you impose yourself on the object and you do not learn.
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Knowledge Learning Leaving Nature Wisdom Yourself
First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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Bridge Fall Snow
Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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Dark Expectation Old Sleep Water
All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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Friendship Moon Ugly View
Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
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Better Choice Leadership Life Original Poetry Reality Write
I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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Eat Fast Glory Morning Myself
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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Breathe Compose Dangerous Enemy Fall Hairs Mindset Tree Writing
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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Accomplishment Deep Devotion Interest Yourself
Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
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Fire Heart Place Travel

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