Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
MATSUO BASHOAwakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.
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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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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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Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
MATSUO BASHO