Basho Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about Basho

Basho Quotes & Sayings

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Here is a greedy man who keeps to himself
The beautiful pears ripe in his garden. — Matsuo Basho

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought. — Matsuo Basho

A weathered skeleton
in windy fields of memory,
piercing like a knife. — Matsuo Basho

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers. — Matsuo Basho

Along my journey / through this transitory world, / new year's housecleaning. — Matsuo Basho

The journey itself is my home. — Basho Matsuo

In my new robe
this morning -
someone else. — Basho Matsuo

I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories. — Matsuo Basho

Nothing in the cry
of cicadas suggests they
are about to die — Matsuo Basho

Twilight whippoorwill ... Whistle on, sweet deepener Of dark loneliness — 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

This autumn-
why am I growing old?
bird disappearing among clouds. — Matsuo Basho

Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps' nest. — Matsuo Basho

Don't touch my plumtree!
Said my friend and saying so...
Broke the branch for me — Basho Matsuo

Learn the rules, and then forget them. — Matsuo Basho

The universe and its beings are a complementarity of empty infinity, intimate interrelationships, and total uniqueness of each and every being. — 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

April's air stirs in
Willow-leaves ... a butterfly
Floats and balances — Matsuo Basho

I do not seek to walk in the paths of the wise men of old, I seek what they sought. — Matsuo Basho

If you're an oak
you 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 drowned
Far and deep
Beneath its surging waves
The flaming sun of summer — Matsuo Basho

This snowy morning
That black crow I hate so much ...
But he's so beautiful! — Matsuo Basho

The temple bell stops
But the sound keeps coming
out of the flowers — Matsuo Basho

An autumn night - don't think your life didn't matter. — Matsuo Basho

Between our two lives
there is also the life of
the cherry blossom. — Matsuo Basho

How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers — Matsuo Basho

Year after year
On the monkey's face:
A monkey's face. — Matsuo Basho

Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it. — Matsuo Basho

Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem. — 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

Ballet in the air ... Twin butterflies until, twice white They Meet, they mate — Matsuo Basho

Moon woke me up
nine 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

Amorous cat, alas
You too must yowl with your love...
or even worse, without! — Basho Matsuo

A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors. — Matsuo Basho

Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count
/ Festival of the Souls. — 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

Traveler's heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire. — Matsuo Basho

Hidden and unknown
Like 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

Everyone in this house
has gray hair, walks with a cane,
visits the graveyard — Matsuo Basho

From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall. — 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

A warbler singing - somewhere beyond the willow, before the thicket — Matsuo Basho

Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River. — Matsuo Basho

Why so scrawny, cat?
Starving for fat fish or mice ...
Or backyard love? — Matsuo Basho

Cormorant fishing:
How stirring,
How saddening — Basho Matsuo

Had I crossed the pass
Supported by a stick,
I would have spared myself
The fall from the horse. — Matsuo Basho

Now the swinging bridge Is quieted with creepers ... Like our tendrilled life. — Matsuo Basho

Come, let's go
Snow-viewing
Till we're buried. — Basho Matsuo

If he had had no education, maybe Basho could have been a much greater poet. — Nanao Sakaki

Lonely stillness - a single cicada's cry sinking into stone — Basho Matsuo

There we did begin, Cloisterd in the waterfall, Our summer discipline. — Matsuo Basho

Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves. — Matsuo Basho

Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering. — Matsuo Basho

Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves. — Matsuo Basho

How I long to see
among dawn flowers,
the face of God. — Matsuo Basho

Come, see the true flowers of this pained world. — Matsuo Basho

Lightning
doesn't leave you enlightened
- good to know that — Matsuo Basho

All Heaven and Earth
Flowered white obliterate...
Snow...unceasing snow — Basho Matsuo

When I speak My lips feel cold - The autumn wind. — Matsuo Basho

Ah, it is spring,
Great spring it is now,
Great, great spring -
Ah, Great - — Matsuo Basho

Old pond - frogs jumped in - sound of water — Basho Matsuo

Many solemn nights
Blond moon, we stand and marvel...
Sleeping our noons away — Basho Matsuo

Come, butterfly
It'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

Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty. — Matsuo Basho

With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow. — Matsuo Basho

On this road
where nobody else travels
autumn nightfall. — Matsuo Basho

Year's end, all
corners of this
floating world, swept. — Matsuo Basho

Not knowing the name of the tree,
I stood in the flood
of its sweet scent. — Matsuo Basho

Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn. — 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

O cricket from your cherry cry
No one would ever guess
How quickly you must die. — Matsuo Basho

Moonlit plum tree-
wait,
spring will come. — Basho Matsuo

Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind. — Matsuo Basho

No matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it. — Matsuo Basho

Pausing between clouds
the moon rests
in the eyes of its beholders — Matsuo Basho

The moon is brighter since the barn burned. — Matsuo Basho

Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water - A deep resonance. — Matsuo Basho

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself. — Matsuo Basho

Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old - / These fields and mountains! — Matsuo Basho

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 — Matsuo Basho