All Matsuo Basho Quotes
- Even in Kyoto/Hearing the cuckoo's cry/I long for Kyoto Cry
- When composing a verse let there not be a hair's breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done… Breath
- Summer grasses, All that remains Of soldiers' dreams All
- Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice Awakened
- No matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it. Able
- Come, see the true flowers of this pained world. Come See
- Come, butterfly It's late- We've miles to go together. Butterfly
- How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God. Among
- If I had the knack I'd sing like Cherry flakes falling Cherries
- On a bare branch a crow is perched - autumn evening Autumn
- Ballet in the air... Twin butterflies until, twice white They Meet, they mate Air
- Seek on high bare trails Sky-reflecting violets... Mountain-top jewels Bare
- For a lovely bowl Let us arrange these flowers... For there is no rice Arrange
- April's air stirs in Willow-leaves...a butterfly Floats and balances Air
- Twilight whippoorwill... Whistle on, sweet deepener Of dark loneliness Dark
- Mountain-rose petals Falling, falling, falling now... Waterfall music Fall
- Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice... Or backyard love? Backyard
- Old dark sleepy pool... Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash! Dark
- How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers Desire
- Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die Cicadas
- Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home. Day
- In this poor body, composed of one hundred bones and nine openings, is something called spirit, a flimsy curtain swept this way and that by… Almost Gave
- From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall. All
- Seek not to follow in the footsteps of men of old; seek what they sought. Follow