Matsuo Basho Quotes About Butterflies

Quotes about: Butterflies

• Come, butterfly It's late- We've miles to go together.

  Matsuo Basho

  Butterfly, Together, Miles

  Matsuo Basho (2015). “Lips too Chilled”, p.43, Penguin UK

• With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.

  Matsuo Basho

  Butterfly, Wind

  Matsuo Basho, “With Every Gust Of Wind”

• Ballet in the air... Twin butterflies until, twice white They Meet, they mate

  Matsuo Basho

  Butterfly, Air, White

• April's air stirs in Willow-leaves...a butterfly Floats and balances

  Matsuo Basho

  Spring, Butterfly, Air

• Orchidbreathing incense into butterfly's wings

  Matsuo Basho

  Butterfly, Wings, Incense

  c.1689 On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho, no.166 (translated by Lucien Stryk).

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