Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
MATSUO BASHOWith every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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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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This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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