Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
MATSUO BASHOFrom all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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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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Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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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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April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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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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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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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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Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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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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