April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
MATSUO BASHODo not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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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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Farewell, my old fan. / Having scribbled on it, / What could I do but tear it / At the end of summer?
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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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The journey itself is my home.
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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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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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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Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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