Basho Quotes
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Basho Quotes & Sayings
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The journey itself is my home.
— Basho Matsuo
In my new robethis morning -
someone else. — Basho Matsuo
I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
— Matsuo Basho
Nothing in the cryof cicadas suggests they
are about to die — Matsuo Basho
I felt quite at home, / As if it were mine sleeping lazily / In this house of fresh air.
— Matsuo Basho
Even in Kyoto longing for Kyoto hototogisu
— Basho Matsuo
Year by year, the monkey's mask reveals the monkey
— Matsuo Basho
Learn the rules, and then forget them.
— Matsuo Basho
Come, see real flowers
of this painful world — Basho Matsuo
Along this road goes no one, this autumn eve.
— Basho Matsuo
Searching for the scent of the early plum,
I found it by the eaves
Of a proud storehouse. — Matsuo Basho
If you're an oakyou don't pretend
you are a flower — Matsuo Basho
Winter garden,the moon thinned to a thread,
insects singing. — Matsuo Basho
Year's end still in straw hat and sandals
— Matsuo Basho
The River Mogami has drownedFar and deep
Beneath its surging waves
The flaming sun of summer — Matsuo Basho
An autumn night - don't think your life didn't matter.
— Matsuo Basho
Year after yearOn the monkey's face:
A monkey's face. — Matsuo Basho
Learn about a pine tree from a pine tree, and about a bamboo plant from a bamboo plant.
— Matsuo Basho
I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness
The willow leaves
Scattered in the garden. — Matsuo Basho
On a bare branch a crow is perched - autumn evening
— Matsuo Basho
Moon woke me upnine times
- still just 4 a.m. — Basho Matsuo
Summer grasses,All that remains
Of soldiers' dreams — Matsuo Basho
Old yam digger please explain this mountain's sorrows
— Basho Matsuo
The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, "I shall be unhappy without loneliness," shows that he made loneliness his master.
— Matsuo Basho
All who have achieved excellence in art possess one thing in common; that is, a mind to be one with nature, throughout the seasons.
— Matsuo Basho
The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
— Matsuo Basho
There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.
— Matsuo Basho
Hidden and unknownLike the new moon
I will live my life — Basho Matsuo
Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
— Matsuo Basho
Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
— 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
'The Narrow Road to the Deep North' is one of the most famous books of all Japanese literature, written by the great poet Basho in 1689.
— Richard Flanagan
A flute with no holes is not a flute.
— Matsuo Basho
Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
— Matsuo Basho
Cormorant fishing:How stirring,
How saddening — Basho Matsuo
Had I crossed the passSupported by a stick,
I would have spared myself
The fall from the horse. — Matsuo Basho
Come, let's goSnow-viewing
Till we're buried. — Basho Matsuo
Lonely stillness - a single cicada's cry sinking into stone
— Basho Matsuo
Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
— Matsuo Basho
How I long to seeamong dawn flowers,
the face of God. — Matsuo Basho
Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
— Matsuo Basho
Lightningdoesn't leave you enlightened
- good to know that — Matsuo Basho
When I speak My lips feel cold - The autumn wind.
— Matsuo Basho
Old pond - frogs jumped in - sound of water
— Basho Matsuo
Come, butterflyIt's late-
We've miles to go together. — Matsuo Basho
First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
— Matsuo Basho
Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
— Matsuo Basho
On this roadwhere nobody else travels
autumn nightfall. — Matsuo Basho
Year's end, all corners of this
floating world, swept. — Matsuo Basho
At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water
— Matsuo Basho
Just washed, How chill The white leeks!
— Matsuo Basho
Moonlit plum tree-wait,
spring will come. — Basho Matsuo
No matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it.
— Matsuo Basho
The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
— Matsuo Basho
