"The main task for the Haiku poet," Veda explained, "is to immerse himself into the heart of an object or an incident ... and to catch the impersonal mood it shares with the universe." - Colin Westerbeck quoting Veda who wrote the essay "Basho on the Art of the Haiku: Impersonality in Poetry"
quotes taken from Westerbeck writing about the Poet Basho's influence on the photographer Yasuhir Ishimoto in a book of Ishimotos photography under the title "Yasuhiro Ishimoto"
... the profound perceptions of the poet can be sustained only for a few moments at most. His revelations are but a glimpse into the nature of things.
If you get a flash of insight into an object, ... let there not be a hair's breadth separating your mind from what you write ... never hesitate at that moment. The instantaneous quality that the composition of the poem must have makes it like leaping at a formidable enemy, ... or like biting into a pear.
" ... simply observe what children do," Basho says.
The poet does not flee from the world of ordinary men; he is in the middle of it, understanding and sharing the feelings of ordinary men; he has only to be a bystander, who calmly and smilingly observes them. 
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