Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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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Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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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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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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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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Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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Go to the object. Leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Do not impose yourself on the object. Become one with the object. Plunge deep enough into the object to see something like a hidden glimmering there.
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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