Matsuo Basho Quotes
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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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On a bare branch a crow is perched - autumn evening
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April's air stirs in Willow-leaves...a butterfly Floats and balances
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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Just washed, How chill The white leeks!
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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.
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Year by year, the monkey's mask reveals the monkey
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Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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Friends part foreverwild geese lost in cloud
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All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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Mountain-rose petals Falling, falling, falling now... Waterfall music
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Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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Operating superficially, the mind is random in its activity and stale in its insights and images. However, with practice and experience the mind is freed from the skull, and the fresh and new can appear as though for the first time. It
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Old pond, frog jumps in - plop.
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Year's end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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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.
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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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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.
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Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
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Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps' nest.
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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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Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
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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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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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Farewell, my old fan. / Having scribbled on it, / What could I do but tear it / At the end of summer?
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