The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.
MATSUO BASHOThe universe and its beings are a complementarity of empty infinity, intimate interrelationships, and total uniqueness of each and every being.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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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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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
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Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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