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Mountain-rose petals Falling, falling, falling now... Waterfall music

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Matsuo Basho
Age: 50 †
Born: 1644
Born: January 1
Died: 1694
Died: November 28
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Vaxjo
Matsuo Basho
Bashō
Bashô
Basho
Matsuo Bashou
Mountain
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Waterfall
Haiku
Waterfalls
Petals
Falling
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First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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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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An autumn night - don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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What is important is to keep our mind high in the world of true understanding, and returning to the world of our daily experience to seek therein the truth of beauty. No matter what we may be doing at a given moment, we must not forget that is has a bearing upon our everlasting self which is poetry.
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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old - / These fields and mountains!
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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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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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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 the falling blossoms and the scattering leaves.
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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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