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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Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
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Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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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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Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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The journey itself is my home.
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Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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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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At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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