Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
MATSUO BASHOCome, see the true flowers of this pained world.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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The basis of art is change in the universe.
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.
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Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
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A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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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.
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I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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