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| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
| NUMBER: | 5748 |
| QUOTATION: | Refinement’s origin: the remote north country’s rice-planting song. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Matsuo Basho (1644–1694), Japanese poet. (untitled haiku), Trans. by Bernard Lionel Einbond, in Cicada I, No. 4 (Winter 1977). |
| The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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