Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
MATSUO BASHOCollecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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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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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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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
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Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
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The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, “I shall be unhappy without loneliness,” shows that he made loneliness his master.
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