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 BASHOA flute with no holes is not a flute.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo. And in doing so, you must leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Otherwise you impose yourself on the object and you do not learn.
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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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Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.
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Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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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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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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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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