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Matsuo Bashō Quote: “This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.”

51. “This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.”

— Matsuo Bashō

Matsuo Bashō Quote: “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.”

52. “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 Bashō

Matsuo Bashō 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.”

53. “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 Bashō

Matsuo Bashō Quote: “Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.”

54. “Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.”

— Matsuo Bashō

Matsuo Bashō Quote: “Year’s end still in straw hat and sandals.”

55. “Year’s end still in straw hat and sandals.”

— Matsuo Bashō

Matsuo Bashō Quote: “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.”

56. “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 Bashō

Matsuo Bashō Quote: “From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.”

57. “From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.”

— Matsuo Bashō

Matsuo Bashō Quote: “Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.”

58. “Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.”

— Matsuo Bashō

Matsuo Bashō Quote: “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.”

59. “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 Bashō

Matsuo Bashō Quote: “If I had the knack I’d sing like Cherry flakes falling.”

60. “If I had the knack I’d sing like Cherry flakes falling.”

— Matsuo Bashō

Matsuo Bashō Quote: “Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.”

61. “Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.”

— Matsuo Bashō

Matsuo Bashō Quote: “The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.”

62. “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 Bashō

Matsuo Bashō Quote: “Just washed, How chill The white leeks!”

63. “Just washed, How chill The white leeks!”

— Matsuo Bashō

Matsuo Bashō Quote: “Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.”

64. “Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.”

— Matsuo Bashō

Matsuo Bashō Quote: “Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.”

65. “Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.”

— Matsuo Bashō

Matsuo Bashō Quote: “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 in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy.”

66. “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 in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy.”

— Matsuo Bashō

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