The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.
MATSUO BASHOClapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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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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The moon and sun are travelers through eternity. Even the years wander on. Whether drifting through life on a boat or climbing toward old age leading a horse, each day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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The basis of art is change in the universe.
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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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No matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it.
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Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
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