Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
MATSUO BASHOSpring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Make the universe your companion, always bearing in mind the true nature of things-mountains and rivers, trees and grasses, and humanity-and enjoy the falling blossoms and the scattering leaves.
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Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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Farewell, my old fan. / Having scribbled on it, / What could I do but tear it / At the end of summer?
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Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.
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Go 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.
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Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
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All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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