Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
MATSUO BASHONot to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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There came a day when the clouds drifting along with the wind aroused a wanderlust in me, and I set off on a journey to roam along the seashores
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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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Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
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Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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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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I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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The universe and its beings are a complementarity of empty infinity, intimate interrelationships, and total uniqueness of each and every being.
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Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.
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