Basho Haiku Quotes: top 30 famous quotes about Basho Haiku

Basho Haiku Quotes & Sayings

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

Mountain-rose petals
Falling, falling, falling now...
Waterfall music — Basho Matsuo

on this mountain
sorrow...tell me about it
digger of wild yams — Basho Matsuo

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

He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master. — Matsuo Basho

dozing on horseback
smoke form the tea-fires
drifts to the moon — Basho Matsuo

I'm touched
by this chrysanthemum
it weathered the typhoon — Matsuo Basho

Sick while traveling
dream of a withered field
wandering around — Matsuo Basho

It is only a barbarous mind that sees other than the flower, merely an animal mind that dreams of other than the moon. — Matsuo Basho

Awakened at midnight
by the sound of the water jar
cracking from the ice — Matsuo Basho

If I had the knack
I'd sing like
Cherry flakes falling — Matsuo Basho

A bush-warbler,
Coming to the verandah-edge,
Left its droppings
On the rice-cakes. — Matsuo Basho

On a bare branch a crow is perched - autumn evening — 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

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

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

If you're an oak
you don't pretend
you are a flower — Matsuo Basho

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

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

The River Mogami has drowned
Far and deep
Beneath its surging waves
The flaming sun of summer — Matsuo Basho

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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