"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought."
"Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice"
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Source: c.1689 On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho, no.219 (translated by Lucien Stryk)
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