How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
MATSUO BASHOThe basis of art is change in the universe.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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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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Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
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Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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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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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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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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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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When your consciousness has become ripe in true zazen-pure like clear water, like a serene mountain lake, not moved by any wind-then anything may serve as a medium for realization.
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April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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