Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
MATSUO BASHOMake 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.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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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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Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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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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Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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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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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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