I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
MATSUO BASHOThe moon is brighter since the barn burned.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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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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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.
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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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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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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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A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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