I felt quite at home, / As if it were mine sleeping lazily / In this house of fresh air.
MATSUO BASHOLearn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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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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Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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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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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
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Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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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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Without bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance all over the world?
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The basis of art is change in the universe.
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