From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
MATSUO BASHOOn a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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Go to the object. Leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Do not impose yourself on the object. Become one with the object. Plunge deep enough into the object to see something like a hidden glimmering there.
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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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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 moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
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Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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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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Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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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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Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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