From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
MATSUO BASHOTraveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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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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Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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The journey itself is my home.
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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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I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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