From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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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Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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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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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.
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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.
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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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The basis of art is change in the universe.
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.
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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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