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 BASHOFelling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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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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This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.
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A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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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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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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