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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Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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When your consciousness has become ripe in true zazen-pure like clear water, like a serene mountain lake, not moved by any wind-then anything may serve as a medium for realization.
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Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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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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Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.
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Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
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A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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