Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
MATSUO BASHO
Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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The universe and its beings are a complementarity of empty infinity, intimate interrelationships, and total uniqueness of each and every being.
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Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
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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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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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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.
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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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