Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
MATSUO BASHOCome, see the true flowers of this pained world.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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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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Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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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 basis of art is change in the universe.
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First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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The universe and its beings are a complementarity of empty infinity, intimate interrelationships, and total uniqueness of each and every being.
MATSUO BASHO