Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
MATSUO BASHOI hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
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The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
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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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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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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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The moon and sun are travelers through eternity. Even the years wander on. Whether drifting through life on a boat or climbing toward old age leading a horse, each day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
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