From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
MATSUO BASHOThe 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.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.
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When composing a verse let there not be a hair’s breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy.
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Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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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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Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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