He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.
MATSUO BASHOCome, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
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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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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First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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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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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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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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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
MATSUO BASHO






