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 BASHOWhy so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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The basis of art is change in the universe.
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Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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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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Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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