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“Orchidbreathing incense into butterfly's wings”

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Matsuo Basho was a renowned Japanese poet from the Edo period, hailed as the god of haiku. His poetry is characterized by its simplicity, conciseness, and profound meaning, exerting a profound influence on later generations. more

“My body, now close to fifty years of age, has become an old tree that bears bitter peaches, a snail which has lost its shell, a bagworm separated from its bag; it drifts with the winds and clouds that know no destination. Morning and night I have eaten traveler's fare, and have held out for alms a pilgrim's wallet.”

Knows Years Body Age Night Lost Morning Tree Wind Bears Clouds Bitter Fifty Bags Destination Shells Traveler Pilgrim Wallets Peaches Snail Alms Old Trees Morning And Night

Author:Matsuo Basho

“The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.”

Subjects Percent Fifty Sixty Seventies Tire Eighty Haiku

Author:Matsuo Basho

“He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.”

Three Five Poet Masters Ten Lifetime Haiku

Author:Matsuo Basho

“A covenant not to defend myself from force by force is always void. For ... no man can transfer or lay down his Right to save himself. For the right men have by Nature to protect themselves, when none else can protect them, can by no Covenant be relinquished. ... [The right] to defend ourselves [is the] summe of the Right of Nature.”

Men Force Protect Lays Void Covenant Transfers Right Man

Author:Thomas Hobbes

“There is no action of man in this life that is not the beginning of so long a chain of consequences as no human providence is high enough to give a man a prospect in the end. And in this chain, there are linked together both pleasing and unpleasing events in such manner as he that will do anything for his pleasure must engage himself to suffer all the pains annexed to it.”

Men Giving Humans Long Ends Enough Action Pain Together Suffering Pleasure Events Consequence Chains This Life Providence Linked

Book:The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition

Source: The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition

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