Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
MATSUO BASHOThe moon is brighter since the barn burned.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
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Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
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Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.
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Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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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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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo. And in doing so, you must leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Otherwise you impose yourself on the object and you do not learn.
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Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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