With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
MATSUO BASHOEvery day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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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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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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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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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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I felt quite at home, / As if it were mine sleeping lazily / In this house of fresh air.
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A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.
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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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