Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
MATSUO BASHOPlunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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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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There came a day when the clouds drifting along with the wind aroused a wanderlust in me, and I set off on a journey to roam along the seashores
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The basis of art is change in the universe.
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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
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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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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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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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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
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Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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