The moon and sun are travelers through eternity. Even the years wander on. Whether drifting through life on a boat or climbing toward old age leading a horse, each day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
MATSUO BASHOWhen I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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The basis of art is change in the universe.
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
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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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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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