No matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it.
MATSUO BASHOPoverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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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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Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.
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First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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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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A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.
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Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
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Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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Without bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance all over the world?
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Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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