Quotes from Matsuo Basho

Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.

The moon is brighter since the barn burned.

There is nothing you can see that is not a Bashoflower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.

The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.

How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers

A lonely pond in age-old stillness sleeps . . . Apart, unstirred by sound or motion . . . till Suddenly into it a lithe frog leaps. Translated by Curtis Hidden Page

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.

Seek not to follow in the footsteps of men of old; seek what they sought.

Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.

Poverty's child - he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.

The butterfly perfuming it's wings fans the orchid - Matsuo Basho

There we did begin, Cloisterd in the waterfall, Our summer discipline.

I come weary, In search of an inn— Ah! These wisteria flowers!