Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
MATSUO BASHOHe who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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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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When your consciousness has become ripe in true zazen-pure like clear water, like a serene mountain lake, not moved by any wind-then anything may serve as a medium for realization.
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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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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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I felt quite at home, / As if it were mine sleeping lazily / In this house of fresh air.
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A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.
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Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo. And in doing so, you must leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Otherwise you impose yourself on the object and you do not learn.
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Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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