Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
MATSUO BASHOThe temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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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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All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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Farewell, my old fan. / Having scribbled on it, / What could I do but tear it / At the end of summer?
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April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo. And in doing so, you must leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Otherwise you impose yourself on the object and you do not learn.
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Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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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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Make the universe your companion, always bearing in mind the true nature of things-mountains and rivers, trees and grasses, and humanity-and enjoy the falling blossoms and the scattering leaves.
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Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.
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