Wisdom Quote by Bashō — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

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

“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.”

“Principles of Liberty”

“A person is wise if he listens to millions of advice and doesn't implement any of it.”

“The more humans learned from their primate cousins, the less harm they did to themselves and the world.”

“If you rest, you rust.”

“Wisdom will teach you how to walk out of mountains you were never meant to climb, so that you can focus on the ones destined for your life.”

“When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.”