Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
MATSUO BASHOPlunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.
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Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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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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Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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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 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 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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Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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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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Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
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