Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
MATSUO BASHOPlunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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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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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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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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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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The basis of art is change in the universe.
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Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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When composing a verse let there not be a hair’s breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy.
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I felt quite at home, / As if it were mine sleeping lazily / In this house of fresh air.
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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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