There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.
MATSUO BASHOBetween our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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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’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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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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A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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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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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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A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
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Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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