I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
MATSUO BASHOClapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
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Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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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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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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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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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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A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.
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Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
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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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First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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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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When composing a verse let there not be a hair’s breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy.
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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