How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
MATSUO BASHOThe fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, “I shall be unhappy without loneliness,” shows that he made loneliness his master.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.
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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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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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Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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