Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
MATSUO BASHOSadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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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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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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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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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.
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Without bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance all over the world?
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Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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The basis of art is change in the universe.
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Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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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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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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