Basho (17th Century Japanese poet)

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I have been reading translations of this wonderful poet, and just yesterday came across this passage which made me immediately think of NMA:

"...all who have achieved real excellence in art possess one thing in common, that is, a mind to obey nature, to be one with nature, throughout the four seasons of the year. Whatever such a mind sees is a flower, and whatever such a mind dreams of is the moon. It is only the barbarous mind that sees other than the flower, merely an animal mind that dreams of other than the moon...."