From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
MATSUO BASHOLearn the rules, and then forget them.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Go to the object. Leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Do not impose yourself on the object. Become one with the object. Plunge deep enough into the object to see something like a hidden glimmering there.
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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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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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The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, “I shall be unhappy without loneliness,” shows that he made loneliness his master.
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A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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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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A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.
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Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.
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A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
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