Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
MATSUO BASHOThis autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
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Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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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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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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I felt quite at home, / As if it were mine sleeping lazily / In this house of fresh air.
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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