Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
MATSUO BASHOHow I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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Farewell, my old fan. / Having scribbled on it, / What could I do but tear it / At the end of summer?
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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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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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There came a day when the clouds drifting along with the wind aroused a wanderlust in me, and I set off on a journey to roam along the seashores
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No matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it.
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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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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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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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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
MATSUO BASHO