No matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it.
MATSUO BASHOHe who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
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I felt quite at home, / As if it were mine sleeping lazily / In this house of fresh air.
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Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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Make the universe your companion, always bearing in mind the true nature of things-mountains and rivers, trees and grasses, and humanity-and enjoy the falling blossoms and the scattering leaves.
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This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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