Dreams Quote by Matsuo Bashō

Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo.…

— Matsuo Basho

Without the bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance to the whole world?

— Matsuo Basho

Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.

— Matsuo Basho

When I speak My lips feel cold - The autumn wind.

— 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…

— Matsuo Bashô

Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die

— Matsuo Basho

A flute with no holes is not a flute.

— Matsuo Basho

The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.

— Matsuo Basho

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

— Matsuo Basho

Learn the rules, and then forget them.

— 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…

— Matsuo Basho

A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.

— Matsuo Basho