Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
MATSUO BASHOSitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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Make the universe your companion, always bearing in mind the true nature of things-mountains and rivers, trees and grasses, and humanity-and enjoy the falling blossoms and the scattering leaves.
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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
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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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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.
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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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