Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
MATSUO BASHOThe moon is brighter since the barn burned.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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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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Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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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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Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.
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