Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
MATSUO BASHOClapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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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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Without bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance all over the world?
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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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The universe and its beings are a complementarity of empty infinity, intimate interrelationships, and total uniqueness of each and every being.
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Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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No matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it.
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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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