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 BASHOBetween our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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The universe and its beings are a complementarity of empty infinity, intimate interrelationships, and total uniqueness of each and every being.
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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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No matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it.
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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
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Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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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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