When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
MATSUO BASHOCome out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.
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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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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.
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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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First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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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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All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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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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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
MATSUO BASHO