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 BASHOThe oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
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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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Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
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Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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There came a day when the clouds drifting along with the wind aroused a wanderlust in me, and I set off on a journey to roam along the seashores
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Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
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Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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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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At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
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