Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
MATSUO BASHOSummer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
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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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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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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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The universe and its beings are a complementarity of empty infinity, intimate interrelationships, and total uniqueness of each and every being.
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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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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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