Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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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He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.
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The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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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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Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
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Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo. And in doing so, you must leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Otherwise you impose yourself on the object and you do not learn.
MATSUO BASHO