A Quote by Matsuo Basho

Old pond, leap-splash - a frog.

Matsuo Basho

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Frog Leap Old Pond Splash

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Matsuo Basho
Japanese - Poet
1644 - November 28, 1694

A lot of people have used the frog splash over the years. Every one else that used it is a four star frog splash, when RVD did it, it became a five star frog splash.

CM Punk

Tonight I walked around the pond scaring frogs; a couple of them jumped off, going, in effect, eek, and most grunted, and the pond was still. But one big frog, bright green like a poster-paint frog, didn't jump, so I waved my arm and stamped to scare it, and it jumped suddenly, and I jumped, and then everything in the pond jumped, and I laughed and laughed.

Annie Dillard

You throw a stone into a deep pond. Splash. The sound is big, and it reverberates throughout the surrounding area. What comes out of the pond after that? All we can do is stare at the pond, holding our breath.

Haruki Murakami

Frog has no nerves. Frog is as old as a cockroach. Frog is my father's genitals. Frog is a malformed doorknob. Frog is a soft bag of green.

Anne Sexton

Old pond, frog jumps in - plop.

Matsuo Basho

The old pond, ah! A frog jumps in: The water's sound.

Matsuo Basho

When we are alone on a starlit night, when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove of junipers to rest and eat; when we see children in a moment when they are really children, when we know love in our own hearts; or when, like the Japanese poet, Basho, we hear an old frog land in a quiet pond with a solitary splash - at such times the awakening, the turning inside out of all values, the "newness," the emptiness and the purity of vision that make themselves evident, all these provide a glimpse of the cosmic dance.

Thomas Merton

When I was really young I used to collect frog spawn. I made a pond out of an old sink and I loved to spend hours watching the frogs grow.

Beth Orton

To a frog that's never left his pond, the ocean seems like a gamble. Look what he's giving up: security, mastery of his world, recognition! The ocean frog just shakes his head. "I can't explain where I live, but someday I'll take you there."

Rumi

At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water

Matsuo Basho

It's a poor frog that doesn't praise his own pond! - Donnie McClurkin

Donnie McClurkin

As the old fisherman remarked after explaining the various ways to attach a frog to a hook, it's all the same to the frog.

Paul Schullery

Frog in a little pond can be much happier than fish in a vast ocean!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water - A deep resonance.

Matsuo Basho

In restaurants where they serve frog's legs, what do they do with the rest of the frog? Do they just throw it away? You never see "frog torsos" on the menu. Is there actually a garbage can full of frog bodies in the alley? I wouldn't want to be a homeless guy looking for an unfinished cheeseburger and open the lid on that