First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
MATSUO BASHOThe sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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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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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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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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Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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There came a day when the clouds drifting along with the wind aroused a wanderlust in me, and I set off on a journey to roam along the seashores
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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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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