Quote

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

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
Three
Poems
Creates
Master
Ten
Lifetime
Masters
Completes
Poet
Attains
Five
Haiku

More quotes by Matsuo Basho

Image
Friends part foreverwild geese lost in cloud
Matsuo Basho
Image
On a bare branch a crow is perched - autumn evening
Matsuo Basho
Image
A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
Matsuo Basho
Image
Mountain-rose petals Falling, falling, falling now... Waterfall music
Matsuo Basho
Image
Farewell, my old fan. / Having scribbled on it, / What could I do but tear it / At the end of summer?
Matsuo Basho
Image
The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, I shall be unhappy without loneliness, shows that he made loneliness his master.
Matsuo Basho
Image
Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
Matsuo Basho
Image
The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
Matsuo Basho
Image
The basis of art is change in the universe.
Matsuo Basho
Image
Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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
Seek on high bare trails Sky-reflecting violets... Mountain-top jewels
Matsuo Basho
Image
Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old - / These fields and mountains!
Matsuo Basho
Image
Without bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance all over the world?
Matsuo Basho
Image
Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end - tonight's moon
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
An autumn night - don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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
First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
Matsuo Basho