174 Quotes by Matsuo Bashō

Come, let's goSnow-viewingTill we're buried.

No matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it.

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

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

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.

The moon is brighter since the barn burned.

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

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 time. It

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