He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.
MATSUO BASHOThere is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
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I felt quite at home, / As if it were mine sleeping lazily / In this house of fresh air.
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First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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The basis of art is change in the universe.
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Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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