The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
MATSUO BASHOLearn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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The journey itself is my home.
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Farewell, my old fan. / Having scribbled on it, / What could I do but tear it / At the end of summer?
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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.
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Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
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The moon and sun are travelers through eternity. Even the years wander on. Whether drifting through life on a boat or climbing toward old age leading a horse, each day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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