"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought."
"The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of."
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Source: Collected Haiku Theory. Book by Matsuo Bashō, 1951.
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