Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
MATSUO BASHOThe universe and its beings are a complementarity of empty infinity, intimate interrelationships, and total uniqueness of each and every being.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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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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A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
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Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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