Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
MATSUO BASHOFrom the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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The universe and its beings are a complementarity of empty infinity, intimate interrelationships, and total uniqueness of each and every being.
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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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The basis of art is change in the universe.
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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
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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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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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