Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
MATSUO BASHONothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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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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Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
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Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
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No matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it.
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The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.
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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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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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