Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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The basis of art is change in the universe.
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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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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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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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