No matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it.
MATSUO BASHOCollecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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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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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
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The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
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Farewell, my old fan. / Having scribbled on it, / What could I do but tear it / At the end of summer?
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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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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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Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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