The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
MATSUO BASHOSeek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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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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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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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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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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Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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Make the universe your companion, always bearing in mind the true nature of things-mountains and rivers, trees and grasses, and humanity-and enjoy the falling blossoms and the scattering leaves.
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Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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The journey itself is my home.
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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.
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