The universe and its beings are a complementarity of empty infinity, intimate interrelationships, and total uniqueness of each and every being.
MATSUO BASHODon’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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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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Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
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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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Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
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I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.
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Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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The basis of art is change in the universe.
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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.
MATSUO BASHO