Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
MATSUO BASHOLearn the rules, and then forget them.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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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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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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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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Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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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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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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Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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The moon and sun are travelers through eternity. Even the years wander on. Whether drifting through life on a boat or climbing toward old age leading a horse, each day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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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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A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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