Matsuo Bashō
sagte
Even if you have three or four extra syllables—or as many as five or seven—you need not worry as long as the verse sounds right.
— From a letter to Takayama Biji, 20 June 1682, as quoted in Basho: The Complete Haiku (2013) by Jane Reichhold


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