"What matters, as Coleridge said, is the impression produced by the dream. The images are minor; they are effects.” – Jorge Luis Borges
Old Pond
After the 17th-century Japanese haiku master, Basho Matsuo (1644-1694)
That an old man sat by the old pond does not much matter,
Nor that a frog jumped in, but only the sound of water.
Nor that a frog jumped in, but only the sound of water.
Furuike ya: old pond kawazu tobikomu: frog jumps mizu no oto: water’s sound |
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