Japanese Haiku Quotes

#1. The woman I loved died because I did not love her enough - what greater sin is there than that?
(Uncle Chaim and Aunt Fifke and the Angel)

Peter S. Beagle

#2. He said, "I've always liked the name Jane." Blue's eyes widened. "Ja - what? Oh! No, no. You can't just go around naming people other things because you don't like their real name.

Maggie Stiefvater

#3. What the restored gospel brings to the discussion on marriage and family is so large and so relevant that it cannot be overstated: we make the subject eternal!

L. Tom Perry

#4. Once you open that door to a values conversation, it's going to undercut a right-wing economic agenda, which values wealth over work and favors the rich over the poor, or resorts to war as the first resort and not the last.

Jim Wallis

#5. If you can work and if you're offered a job and you don't take it, you cannot continue to claim benefits. It will be extremely tough.

David Cameron

#6. Tithing is a sacred gift to health and wealth.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. Knut, this is Jude. Remember I told you about him? He writes poetry." Knut looked my half-Japanese self up and down. "Haiku?" he guessed. "Gesundheit," I muttered sourly.

J.L. Merrow

#8. The video game culture was an important thing to keep alive in the film because we're in a new era right now. The idea that kids can play video games like Grand Theft Auto or any video game is amazing. The video games are one step before a whole other virtual universe.

Vin Diesel

#9. I've seen beautiful actresses get spat at or just someone trying to get a rise out of them so they can get an extra hundred bucks for a photo. It's really rough.

James McAvoy

#10. Haiku is not a shriek, a howl, a sigh, or a yawn; rather, it is the deep breath of life.

Santoka Taneda

#11. A teahouse amid the cherry blossoms, on the way to death. p136

Donna Tartt

#12. Any love is condemned to suffer a murderous persecution. We are impotent of feeling and do not forgive other people's love. So don't let anyone know that you love.

Nelson Rodrigues

#13. I already feel that I am making a political statement by sticking around in music, when I am doing it so differently to everyone else.

M.I.A.

#14. I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.

Madeleine K. Albright

#15. The River Mogami has drowned
Far and deep
Beneath its surging waves
The flaming sun of summer

Matsuo Basho

#16. I am an admirer of haiku, and I'm a great admirer of Japanese literature in general.

Richard Flanagan

#17. When composing a verse let there not be a hair's breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy.

Matsuo Basho

#18. Haiku does not express emotion from the inside out by displaying the mind of a character. Haiku builds the emotional thrust, makes the artistic statement from the outside in, from the physical world to the mind of the reader.

Harley King

#19. Who knew death could lead to an eating disorder?

Corey Redekop

#20. When something is a vocation, you don't really make a decision about it.

Cate Blanchett

#21. In marriage, everyday you love,and everyday you forgive.It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness

Bill Moyers