Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
MATSUO BASHOThe temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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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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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
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April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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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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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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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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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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