There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.
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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A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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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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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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The journey itself is my home.
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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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 felt quite at home, / As if it were mine sleeping lazily / In this house of fresh air.
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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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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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