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.
MATSUO BASHOSpring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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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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The basis of art is change in the universe.
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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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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All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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The journey itself is my home.
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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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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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