Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
MATSUO BASHOThe moon is brighter since the barn burned.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.
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Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
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Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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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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Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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When your consciousness has become ripe in true zazen-pure like clear water, like a serene mountain lake, not moved by any wind-then anything may serve as a medium for realization.
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Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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