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.
MATSUO BASHODo not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
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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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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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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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April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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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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Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
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Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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