Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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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This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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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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Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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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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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
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The journey itself is my home.
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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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The basis of art is change in the universe.
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Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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