From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
MATSUO BASHOThere is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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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 solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.
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Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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