Basho Matsuo Quotes & Sayings

Cormorant fishing:
How stirring,
How saddening — Basho Matsuo

Wintery day,
On my horse
A frozen shadow. — Basho Matsuo

Seek on high bare trails
Sky-reflecting violets...
Mountain-top jewels — Basho Matsuo

Come, let's go
Snow-viewing
Till we're buried. — Basho Matsuo

Hidden and unknown
Like the new moon
I will live my life — Basho Matsuo

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

Moonlit plum tree-
wait,
spring will come. — Basho Matsuo

Lonely stillness - a single cicada's cry sinking into stone — Basho Matsuo

Along this road goes no one, this autumn eve. — Basho Matsuo

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

The journey itself is my home. — Basho Matsuo

Even in Kyoto longing for Kyoto hototogisu — Basho Matsuo

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

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

Old yam digger please explain this mountain's sorrows — Basho Matsuo

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

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

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

In my new robe
this morning -
someone else. — Basho Matsuo

The past remains hidden in clouds of memory. — Basho Matsuo

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

Moon woke me up
nine times
- still just 4 a.m. — Basho Matsuo

Come, see real
flowers
of this painful world — Basho Matsuo

you make the fire
and I'll show you something wonderful:
a big ball of snow! — Basho Matsuo