Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
MATSUO BASHOCome, see the true flowers of this pained world.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo. And in doing so, you must leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Otherwise you impose yourself on the object and you do not learn.
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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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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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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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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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Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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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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Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
MATSUO BASHO