Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
MATSUO BASHO
Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
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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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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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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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The journey itself is my home.
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