At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
MATSUO BASHOGo 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.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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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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Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
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This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, “I shall be unhappy without loneliness,” shows that he made loneliness his master.
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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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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 seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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The basis of art is change in the universe.
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