No matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it.
MATSUO BASHOThe moon is brighter since the barn burned.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.
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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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Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
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The journey itself is my home.
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Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
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Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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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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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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