Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
MATSUO BASHOBefore enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
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Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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Make the universe your companion, always bearing in mind the true nature of things-mountains and rivers, trees and grasses, and humanity-and enjoy the falling blossoms and the scattering leaves.
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Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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There came a day when the clouds drifting along with the wind aroused a wanderlust in me, and I set off on a journey to roam along the seashores
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At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
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Farewell, my old fan. / Having scribbled on it, / What could I do but tear it / At the end of summer?
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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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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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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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