Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
MATSUO BASHOCome out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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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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Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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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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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
MATSUO BASHO