From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
MATSUO BASHOCollecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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The journey itself is my home.
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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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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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
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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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