Learn the rules, and then forget them.
MATSUO BASHOFrom all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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Without bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance all over the world?
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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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The basis of art is change in the universe.
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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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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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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