Learn the rules, and then forget them.
MATSUO BASHOOld dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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When your consciousness has become ripe in true zazen-pure like clear water, like a serene mountain lake, not moved by any wind-then anything may serve as a medium for realization.
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Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
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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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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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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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All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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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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The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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The basis of art is change in the universe.
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This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.
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