Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
MATSUO BASHOSpring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
-
-
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.
MATSUO BASHO -
First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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.
MATSUO BASHO -
Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
MATSUO BASHO -
Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
MATSUO BASHO -
Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
MATSUO BASHO -
A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
MATSUO BASHO -
Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
MATSUO BASHO -
On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
MATSUO BASHO -
Learn the rules, and then forget them.
MATSUO BASHO -
Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
MATSUO BASHO -
I felt quite at home, / As if it were mine sleeping lazily / In this house of fresh air.
MATSUO BASHO -
The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
MATSUO BASHO -
There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.
MATSUO BASHO -
A flute with no holes is not a flute.
MATSUO BASHO