Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
MATSUO BASHOBetween our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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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The basis of art is change in the universe.
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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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Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
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Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
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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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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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I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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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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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.
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When composing a verse let there not be a hair’s breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy.
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