Matsuo Basho Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Matsuo Basho
Matsuo Basho Famous Quotes & Sayings
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All who have achieved excellence in art possess one thing in common; that is, a mind to be one with nature, throughout the seasons.
There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.
The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, "I shall be unhappy without loneliness," shows that he made loneliness his master.
Farewell, my old fan. / Having scribbled on it, / What could I do but tear it / At the end of summer?
Without the bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance to the whole world?
He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.
Temple of Suma
hearing the unblown flute
in the deep shade of trees
sumadera ya / fukanu fue kiku / koshitayami
hearing the unblown flute
in the deep shade of trees
sumadera ya / fukanu fue kiku / koshitayami
In this world of ours,
We eat only to cast out,
Sleep only to wake,
And what comes after all that
Is simply to die at last.
We eat only to cast out,
Sleep only to wake,
And what comes after all that
Is simply to die at last.
It is only a barbarous mind that sees other than the flower, merely an animal mind that dreams of other than the moon.
The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.
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
The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.