The journey itself is my home.
MATSUO BASHOOld pond, frog jumps in – plop.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo. And in doing so, you must leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Otherwise you impose yourself on the object and you do not learn.
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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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There came a day when the clouds drifting along with the wind aroused a wanderlust in me, and I set off on a journey to roam along the seashores
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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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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Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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