The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, “I shall be unhappy without loneliness,” shows that he made loneliness his master.
MATSUO BASHOTraveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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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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Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
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Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
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The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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The basis of art is change in the universe.
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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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