Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
MATSUO BASHOPlunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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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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Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.
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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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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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Go to the object. Leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Do not impose yourself on the object. Become one with the object. Plunge deep enough into the object to see something like a hidden glimmering there.
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Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
MATSUO BASHO