Learn the rules, and then forget them.
MATSUO BASHOBefore enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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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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Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
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The universe and its beings are a complementarity of empty infinity, intimate interrelationships, and total uniqueness of each and every being.
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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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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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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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All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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