He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.
MATSUO BASHOCome, see the true flowers of this pained world.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.
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A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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The basis of art is change in the universe.
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Farewell, my old fan. / Having scribbled on it, / What could I do but tear it / At the end of summer?
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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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Without bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance all over the world?
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The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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