Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
MATSUO BASHO
He 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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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
MATSUO BASHO -
The basis of art is change in the universe.
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Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.
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Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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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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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
MATSUO BASHO