"The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, "I shall be unhappy without loneliness," shows that he made loneliness his master."

“He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.”

“Classical Japanese Database, featuring various poems by Bashō in original and translation”

“Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.”

“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 Bashô: Frog Haiku", featuring 31 translations and one commentary of the haiku”

“My body, now close to fifty years of age, has become an old tree that bears bitter peaches, a snail which has lost its shell, a bagworm separated from its bag; it drifts with the winds and clouds that know no destination. Morning and night I have eaten traveler's fare, and have held out for alms a pilgrim's wallet.”