Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
MATSUO BASHONot to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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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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The basis of art is change in the universe.
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Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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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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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
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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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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
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Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
MATSUO BASHO