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.
MATSUO BASHOFresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.
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The journey itself is my home.
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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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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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Farewell, my old fan. / Having scribbled on it, / What could I do but tear it / At the end of summer?
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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