Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
MATSUO BASHOThe basis of art is change in the universe.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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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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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
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Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.
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