With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
MATSUO BASHOWhy so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
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The basis of art is change in the universe.
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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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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
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The journey itself is my home.
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Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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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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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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