An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
MATSUO BASHOFresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
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First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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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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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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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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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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There came a day when the clouds drifting along with the wind aroused a wanderlust in me, and I set off on a journey to roam along the seashores
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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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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
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Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
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