Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
MATSUO BASHOAt the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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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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Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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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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All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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The basis of art is change in the universe.
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The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, “I shall be unhappy without loneliness,” shows that he made loneliness his master.
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First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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