Quote

The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, I shall be unhappy without loneliness, shows that he made loneliness his master.

Matsuo Basho

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Matsuo Basho
Age: 50 †
Born: 1644
Born: January 1
Died: 1694
Died: November 28
Artist
Poet
Writer
Vaxjo
Matsuo Basho
Bashō
Bashô
Basho
Matsuo Bashou
Fact
Composed
Facts
Poem
Loneliness
Shows
Unhappy
Without
Begins
Made
Master
Masters
Shall

More quotes by Matsuo Basho

Image
My body, now close to fifty years of age, has become an old tree that bears bitter peaches, a snail which has lost its shell, a bagworm separated from its bag it drifts with the winds and clouds that know no destination. Morning and night I have eaten traveler's fare, and have held out for alms a pilgrim's wallet.
Matsuo Basho
Image
Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
Matsuo Basho
Image
Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
Matsuo Basho
Image
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
Image
If I had the knack I'd sing like Cherry flakes falling
Matsuo Basho
Image
The basis of art is change in the universe.
Matsuo Basho
Image
the universe and its beings are a complementarity of empty infinity, intimate interrelationships, and total uniqueness of each and every being.
Matsuo Basho
Image
Orchidbreathing incense into butterfly's wings
Matsuo Basho
Image
What is important is to keep our mind high in the world of true understanding, and returning to the world of our daily experience to seek therein the truth of beauty. No matter what we may be doing at a given moment, we must not forget that is has a bearing upon our everlasting self which is poetry.
Matsuo Basho
Image
Mountain-rose petals Falling, falling, falling now... Waterfall music
Matsuo Basho
Image
How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
Matsuo Basho
Image
From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
Matsuo Basho
Image
Even in Kyoto/Hearing the cuckoo's cry/I long for Kyoto
Matsuo Basho
Image
Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
Matsuo Basho
Image
When your consciousness has become ripe in true zazen-pure like clear water, like a serene mountain lake, not moved by any wind-then anything may serve as a medium for realization.
Matsuo Basho
Image
The old pond, ah! A frog jumps in: The water's sound.
Matsuo Basho
Image
Twilight whippoorwill... Whistle on, sweet deepener Of dark loneliness
Matsuo Basho
Image
Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
Matsuo Basho
Image
Make the universe your companion, always bearing in mind the true nature of things-mountains and rivers, trees and grasses, and humanity-and enjoy the falling blossoms and the scattering leaves.
Matsuo Basho
Image
No matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it.
Matsuo Basho