Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
MATSUO BASHOBefore enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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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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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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A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
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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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Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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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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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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