Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
MATSUO BASHOThe basis of art is change in the universe.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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There came a day when the clouds drifting along with the wind aroused a wanderlust in me, and I set off on a journey to roam along the seashores
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Go to the object. Leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Do not impose yourself on the object. Become one with the object. Plunge deep enough into the object to see something like a hidden glimmering there.
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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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The journey itself is my home.
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Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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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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At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
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Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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No matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it.
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Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.
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