Learn the rules, and then forget them.
MATSUO BASHOWinter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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I felt quite at home, / As if it were mine sleeping lazily / In this house of fresh air.
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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
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Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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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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Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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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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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 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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