Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
MATSUO BASHOCome out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
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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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Go to the object. Leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Do not impose yourself on the object. Become one with the object. Plunge deep enough into the object to see something like a hidden glimmering there.
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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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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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The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
MATSUO BASHO