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

— Matsuo Basho · Calm quote

There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon. — Matsuo Basho quote card
Poet · 1644 – 1694

Matsuo Basho was Japan's greatest haiku master, who raised the short comic verse of his day into a profound art. His travel diary The Narrow Road to the Deep North records a life spent walking Japan's roads in search of poetry.

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