Basho Poetry Quotes

#1. Little did we guess that what has been called the century of the common man would witness as its outstanding feature more common men killing each other with greater facilities than any other five centuries together in the history of the world.

Winston Churchill

#2. I love them very much. All animals big and small. You can name an ant for instance.

Bindi Irwin

#3. Most great books have been about striving in some sense. In a sense, money is the great topic of the novel. You couldn't necessarily say that about poetry.

Chad Harbach

#4. Yea, foolish mortals, Noah's flood is not yet subsided; two thirds of the fair world it yet covers.

Herman Melville

#5. When I go in there, I'm not going in there to win. I'm going in there to fight!

Tank Abbott

#6. Here is a greedy man who keeps to himself
The beautiful pears ripe in his garden.

Matsuo Basho

#7. Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.

Matsuo Basho

#8. This autumn-
why am I growing old?
bird disappearing among clouds.

Matsuo Basho

#9. 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 Basho

#10. The River Mogami has drowned
Far and deep
Beneath its surging waves
The flaming sun of summer

Matsuo Basho

#11. A bush-warbler,
Coming to the verandah-edge,
Left its droppings
On the rice-cakes.

Matsuo Basho

#12. He can learn things about me through your blood. Can learn about my sister!" She briefly covered her mouth. "He can see everything we've done! I don't want that leech to know what we do in private."
Lothaire strolled up, making a scoffing sound. "As if I don't watch you two live from a distance.

Kresley Cole

#13. I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.

Rafael Moneo

#14. Maybe part of find what you wanted was recognizing what you didn't want. Maybe there was hope for me yet.

Claire Cook

#15. Yet to be daily committed to the greatest of all wars - the one waged within.

Fulton J. Sheen

#16. 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

#17. I don't think that any 'ism' is higher than literature or art. So I'm a formalist. I greatly honor and respect the form of a work.

Joyce Carol Oates

#18. You're excuses are so lame they're limping...

Nora Roberts

#19. Not knowing the name of the tree,
I stood in the flood
of its sweet scent.

Matsuo Basho

#20. There seems to be such an insecurity with a lot of films. When they're made, you have to pack every moment to feel something and use the music in that way. That's something I just naturally don't feel.

Stuart A. Staples

#21. At one time I was weary of verse writing, and wanted to give it up. At another time I was determined to be a poet until I could establish a proud name over others. The alternatives battled in my mind and made my life restless.

Matsuo Basho

#22. The vision of personalised public services - meeting the individual needs of all our citizens - requires continuing reform in the way services are delivered

Gordon Brown

#23. In the end, without skill or talent, I've given myself over entirely to poetry. Po Chu-i labored at it until he nearly burst. Tu Fu starved rather than abandon it. Neither my intelligence nor my writing is comparable to such men. Nevertheless, in the end, we ALL live in phantom huts.

Matsuo Basho

#24. Old pond - frogs jumped in - sound of water

Basho Matsuo