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> [Operating superficially, the mind is random in its activity and stale in its insights and images. However, with practice and experience the mind is freed from the skull, and the fresh and new can appear as though for the first…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matsuo-basho/operating-superficially-the-mind-is-random-in-its-activity-and-stale/)

[Matsuo Basho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matsuo-basho/)

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## More by Matsuo Basho

> [Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matsuo-basho/go-to-the-pine-if-you-want-to-learn-about-the-pine-or-to-the-bamboo/)

[Matsuo Basho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matsuo-basho/)

> [Without the bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance to the whole world?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matsuo-basho/without-the-bitterest-cold-that-penetrates-to-the-very-bone-how-can/)

[Matsuo Basho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matsuo-basho/)

> [Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matsuo-basho/do-not-resemble-me-never-be-like-a-musk-melon-cut-in-two-identical/)

[Matsuo Basho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matsuo-basho/)

> [When I speak My lips feel cold - The autumn wind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matsuo-basho/when-i-speak-my-lips-feel-cold-the-autumn-wind/)

[Matsuo Basho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matsuo-basho/)

> [“In the end, without skill or talent, I've given myself over entirely to poetry. Po Chu-i labored at it until he nearly burst. Tu…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matsuo-basho/in-the-end-without-skill-or-talent-i-ve-given-myself-over-entirely-to/)

[Matsuo Bashô](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matsuo-basho/)

> [Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matsuo-basho/nothing-in-the-cry-of-cicadas-suggests-they-are-about-to-die/)

[Matsuo Basho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matsuo-basho/)

> [A flute with no holes is not a flute.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matsuo-basho/a-flute-with-no-holes-is-not-a-flute/)

[Matsuo Basho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matsuo-basho/)

> [The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matsuo-basho/the-sea-darkens-and-a-wild-duck-s-call-is-faintly-white/)

[Matsuo Basho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matsuo-basho/)

> [Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matsuo-basho/do-not-seek-to-follow-in-the-footsteps-of-the-wise-seek-what-they/)

[Matsuo Basho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matsuo-basho/)

> [Learn the rules, and then forget them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matsuo-basho/learn-the-rules-and-then-forget-them/)

[Matsuo Basho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matsuo-basho/)

> [Go to the object. Leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Do not impose yourself on the object. Become one with the object. Plunge deep…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matsuo-basho/go-to-the-object-leave-your-subjective-preoccupation-with-yourself-do/)

[Matsuo Basho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matsuo-basho/)

> [A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matsuo-basho/a-weathered-skeleton-in-windy-fields-of-memory-piercing-like-a-knife/)

[Matsuo Basho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matsuo-basho/)

> [the universe and its beings are a complementarity of empty infinity, intimate interrelationships, and total uniqueness of each and every being.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matsuo-basho/the-universe-and-its-beings-are-a-complementarity-of-empty-infinity/)

[Matsuo Basho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matsuo-basho/)

> [The old pond, ah! A frog jumps in: The water's sound.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matsuo-basho/the-old-pond-ah-a-frog-jumps-in-the-water-s-sound/)

[Matsuo Basho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matsuo-basho/)

> [Without bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance all over the world?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matsuo-basho/without-bitterest-cold-that-penetrates-to-the-very-bone-how-can-plum/)

[Matsuo Basho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matsuo-basho/)

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