A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.
MATSUO BASHOAt the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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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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I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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Without bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance all over the world?
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