The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
MATSUO BASHOOld dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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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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Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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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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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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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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Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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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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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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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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Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
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