No matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it.
MATSUO BASHOWinter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.
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I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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The journey itself is my home.
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A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
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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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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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Farewell, my old fan. / Having scribbled on it, / What could I do but tear it / At the end of summer?
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Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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