Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
MATSUO BASHOEvery moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
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A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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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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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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Go to the object. Leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Do not impose yourself on the object. Become one with the object. Plunge deep enough into the object to see something like a hidden glimmering there.
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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When composing a verse let there not be a hair’s breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy.
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At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
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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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