The journey itself is my home.
MATSUO BASHOEvery day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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I felt quite at home, / As if it were mine sleeping lazily / In this house of fresh air.
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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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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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Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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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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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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Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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