Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
MATSUO BASHOPlunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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When composing a verse let there not be a hair’s breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy.
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This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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The journey itself is my home.
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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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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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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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