From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
MATSUO BASHOFriends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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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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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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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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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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The moon and sun are travelers through eternity. Even the years wander on. Whether drifting through life on a boat or climbing toward old age leading a horse, each day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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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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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
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First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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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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Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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