Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
MATSUO BASHOFresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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The universe and its beings are a complementarity of empty infinity, intimate interrelationships, and total uniqueness of each and every being.
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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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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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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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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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Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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The journey itself is my home.
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Make 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.
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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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