The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.
MATSUO BASHOLearn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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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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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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I felt quite at home, / As if it were mine sleeping lazily / In this house of fresh air.
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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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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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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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First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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