Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
MATSUO BASHOCome out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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Without bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance all over the world?
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Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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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 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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I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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