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 BASHOFriends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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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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The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, “I shall be unhappy without loneliness,” shows that he made loneliness his master.
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Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
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Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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When composing a verse let there not be a hair’s breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy.
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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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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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Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
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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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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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