On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
MATSUO BASHOThe oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.
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Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
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The universe and its beings are a complementarity of empty infinity, intimate interrelationships, and total uniqueness of each and every being.
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
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Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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