Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
MATSUO BASHOSeek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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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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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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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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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 oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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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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The basis of art is change in the universe.
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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