I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
MATSUO BASHOGo 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.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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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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A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.
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Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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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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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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