I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
MATSUO BASHOFelling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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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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Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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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 sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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No matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it.
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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.
MATSUO BASHO