Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
MATSUO BASHOHow much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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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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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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