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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.

Matsuo Basho

The journey itself is my home.
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Home Journey Myself
With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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Butterfly Change Mindset Place
Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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Home Insect Rain Spring
I felt quite at home, / As if it were mine sleeping lazily / In this house of fresh air.
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Air Home Quite Sleep
On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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Autumn Evening
An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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Autumn Life Night Thinking Yourself
Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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Collection Rain River Water
The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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Bright Burn Moon One Liner
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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Companion Humanity Leaving Mindset Mountain Universe Wisdom Yourself
Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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Awake Ice Night Sound Water
He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.
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Creation Life Master Poem Poet Time Writing
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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Empty Intimate Relationship Unique Universe
Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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Cry Death Flower
Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
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Better Choice Leadership Life Original Poetry Reality Write
Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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Drop Spring Tree
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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Deep Enough Gide Leaving Object Subject Yourself

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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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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