Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
MATSUO BASHOSpring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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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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Go to the object. Leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Do not impose yourself on the object. Become one with the object. Plunge deep enough into the object to see something like a hidden glimmering there.
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A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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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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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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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.
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A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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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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Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
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This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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