The basis of art is change in the universe.
MATSUO BASHOAround existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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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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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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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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The journey itself is my home.
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Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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