I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
MATSUO BASHOWithout bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance all over the world?
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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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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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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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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Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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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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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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