The journey itself is my home.
MATSUO BASHOSitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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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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Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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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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At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
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Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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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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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.
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