Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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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Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
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The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.
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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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Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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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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A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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