Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
MATSUO BASHOThe fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, “I shall be unhappy without loneliness,” shows that he made loneliness his master.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
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Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
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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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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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