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 BASHOWinter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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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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Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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The basis of art is change in the universe.
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There came a day when the clouds drifting along with the wind aroused a wanderlust in me, and I set off on a journey to roam along the seashores
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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Make the universe your companion, always bearing in mind the true nature of things-mountains and rivers, trees and grasses, and humanity-and enjoy the falling blossoms and the scattering leaves.
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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