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Flowers Quotes by Matsuo Basho

8 Flowers quotes by Matsuo Basho

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Matsuo Basho’s eight short verses on flowers provide a compact glimpse into his minimalist, contemplative view of nature. The selection is modest, yet each line carries a quiet depth, making it a useful entry point for readers exploring his floral haiku.

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Without the bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance to the whole world?

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Without bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance all over the world?

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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.

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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.

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The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.

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“Come, see real flowers of this painful world.”

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Make the universe your companion, always bearing in mind the true nature of things-mountains and rivers, trees and grasses, and humanity-and enjoy…

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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.

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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.…

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Without the bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance to the whole world?

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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.

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When I speak My lips feel cold - The autumn wind.

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“In the end, without skill or talent, I've given myself over entirely to poetry. Po Chu-i labored at it until he nearly burst. Tu…

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Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die

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A flute with no holes is not a flute.

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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.

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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

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Learn the rules, and then forget them.

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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…

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A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.

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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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The old pond, ah! A frog jumps in: The water's sound.

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Without bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance all over the world?

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