Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
MATSUO BASHOWinter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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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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The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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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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Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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The basis of art is change in the universe.
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Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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