The universe and its beings are a complementarity of empty infinity, intimate interrelationships, and total uniqueness of each and every being.
MATSUO BASHOSadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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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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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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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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Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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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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Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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The basis of art is change in the universe.
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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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Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
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