Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
MATSUO BASHOFresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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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.
MATSUO BASHO