Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
MATSUO BASHOCollecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
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Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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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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The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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