Matsuo Basho Quotes
April's air stirs in willow-leaves...a butterfly floats and balances.
Matsuo Basho
Quotes to Explore
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Calm was the day, and through the trembling air Sweet-breathing Zephyrus did softly play- A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay Hot Titan's beams, which then did glister fair
Edmund Spenser
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Trying to make a living from poetry is like putting chains on butterfly wings.
A. R. Ammons
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...a victim of bad medicine, bad air, bad food, farcical education, a despicable popular culture.
Anthony Burgess
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Every body in light and shade fills the surrounding air with infinite images of itself; and these, by infinite pyramids diffused in the air, represent this body throughout space and on every side.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Part of a writer's job is just spacing out, looking into the air and imagining things.
Kelly Sue DeConnick
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If we pollute the air, water and soil that keep us alive and well, and destroy the biodiversity that allows natural systems to function, no amount of money will save us.
David Suzuki
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This is suicidal... our home is the biosphere. That's a very thin layer of air, water and land where all life exists. It's fixed, it can't grow, and yet we cling to this idea that the economy can grow forever. And it must. Well, it can't.
David Suzuki
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I love to exercise outside in the fresh air and sun: hiking, swimming, stand-up paddleboarding, and jogging.
Colbie Caillat
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Mobile notifications put people in a state of perpetual emergency interruption - similar to what 911 operators and air traffic controllers experienced back in the '70s and '80s.
Douglas Rushkoff
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If you at any point forget that Wookiees aren't real, it's time to come up for air.
Claudia Gray
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My father served 26 years in the Air Force as a pilot and a pioneer in our missile programs. I learned early about the sacrifices a family makes when a member is repeatedly deployed, and also the fulfillment that comes from serving our country. My brother, my son and I all became Marines.
Jim Webb
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In 'Where the Air is Clear', Carlos Fuentes composed a polyphonic portrait of Mexico City amid the growth and modernization brought on by the economic boom of the 1950s. The novel can be read as a jazz interpretation - free and in a Mexican key - of John Dos Passos' 'Manhattan Transfer'.
Alvaro Enrigue
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Knowledge is not just the preserve of the educated elite. Just because someone has not had a formal education, that does not mean he does not have wisdom and common sense.
Vikas Swarup
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Voters are looking for credibility and are wary of polish. At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter which candidate can more deftly read a teleprompter.
Mark McKinnon
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For a devotee or lover, the being, worshipped or loved, will always be the only one for her or him.
Lionel Blue
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Somebody's real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
Billy West
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I think, in the past, being brave - being powerful, being strong - were qualities that people associated with being masculine. And I think... no, I don't think - I know that now we're realizing they can be feminine, too.
Jessica Chastain
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April's air stirs in willow-leaves...a butterfly floats and balances.
Matsuo Basho
