Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
MATSUO BASHOApril’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Go to the object. Leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Do not impose yourself on the object. Become one with the object. Plunge deep enough into the object to see something like a hidden glimmering there.
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The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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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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The moon and sun are travelers through eternity. Even the years wander on. Whether drifting through life on a boat or climbing toward old age leading a horse, each 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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Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.
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The journey itself is my home.
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Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
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Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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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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All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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Without bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance all over the world?
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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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