Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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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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The basis of art is change in the universe.
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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
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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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Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
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Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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The moon and sun are travelers through eternity. Even the years wander on. Whether drifting through life on a boat or climbing toward old age leading a horse, each day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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