Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
MATSUO BASHOWhen 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.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.
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Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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No matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it.
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Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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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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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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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
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Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
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Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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I felt quite at home, / As if it were mine sleeping lazily / In this house of fresh air.
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Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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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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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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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 how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
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