An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
MATSUO BASHOHow much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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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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Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, “I shall be unhappy without loneliness,” shows that he made loneliness his master.
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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When your consciousness has become ripe in true zazen-pure like clear water, like a serene mountain lake, not moved by any wind-then anything may serve as a medium for realization.
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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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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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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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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
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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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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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