When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
MATSUO BASHOSeek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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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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Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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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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Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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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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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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