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Quote of the day 07/22/25

From Basho: “To talk casuallyAbout an iris flowerIs one of the pleasuresOf the wandering journey.”

Quote of the day 07/21/25

From Basho: “Birth of art –song of rice planters,chorus from nowhere.”

From Basho: “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 mater what we may be doing at a given moment, we must not forget that it has a bearing upon ourContinue reading “Quote of the day 07/20/25”

Quote of the day 07/19/25

From Basho: “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 Fu starved rather than abandon it. Neither my intelligence nor my writing is comparable to such men. Nevertheless, in the end, we ALL live in phantom huts.”

Quote of the day 07/16/25

From Basho: “The temple bell stopsBut the sound keeps comingout of the flowers”

Quote of the day 07/15/25

From Basho: “There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.”

Quote of the day 07/13/25

From Basho: “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.”

Quote of the day 07/11/25

From Basho: “Real poetry is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.”

Quote of the day 06/14/25

From Samuel Taylor Coleridge: “The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.”

Quote of the day 06/05/25

From R.H. Blyth: “…when we think about ourselves, we are deeply conscious of our physical pains and pleasure, but if we forget ourselves, the body too, becoming one with the mind, is hardly aware of its pain and pleasure, cold and heat. How much our happiness depends upon the condition of our minds, is shownContinue reading “Quote of the day 06/05/25”