The basis of art is change in the universe.
MATSUO BASHOThe desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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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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This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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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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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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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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