Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
MATSUO BASHOWhy so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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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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Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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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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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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Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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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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The basis of art is change in the universe.
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Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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