There came a day when the clouds drifting along with the wind aroused a wanderlust in me, and I set off on a journey to roam along the seashores
MATSUO BASHOAround existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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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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Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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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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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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