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.
MATSUO BASHOCome, see the true flowers of this pained world.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
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Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
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Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
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I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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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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All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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