Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
MATSUO BASHODo not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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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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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Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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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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This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, “I shall be unhappy without loneliness,” shows that he made loneliness his master.
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