At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
MATSUO BASHOReal poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
-
-
Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
MATSUO BASHO -
This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
MATSUO BASHO -
The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, “I shall be unhappy without loneliness,” shows that he made loneliness his master.
MATSUO BASHO -
Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
MATSUO BASHO -
Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
MATSUO BASHO -
The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.
MATSUO BASHO -
An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
MATSUO BASHO -
The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
MATSUO BASHO -
Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
MATSUO BASHO -
When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
MATSUO BASHO -
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.
MATSUO BASHO -
Without bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance all over the world?
MATSUO BASHO -
Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
MATSUO BASHO -
For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
MATSUO BASHO -
Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
MATSUO BASHO