"Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem."
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Matsuo Basho quotes (page 3 of 6)
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"When your consciousness has become ripe in true zazen-pure like clear water, like a serene mountain lake, not moved by any wind-then anything may serve as a medium for realization."
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"A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife."
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"Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice... Or backyard love?"
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"Orchidbreathing incense into butterfly's wings"
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"Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock."
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"The basis of art is change in the universe."
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"Old pond, frog jumps in - plop."
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"The journey itself is my home."
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"Friends part foreverwild geese lost in cloud"
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"How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God."
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"Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps' nest."
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"Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn."
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"Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves."
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"All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch."
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"Come, see the true flowers of this pained world."
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"Learn the rules, and then forget them."
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"The moon is brighter since the barn burned."
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"Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice"
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"Year's end still in straw hat and sandals"
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