Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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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Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
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Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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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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Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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The basis of art is change in the universe.
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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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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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