Top 100 Quotes About Haiku
#1. And what does he have to say to the impressionable young student at his side? That all poets must eventually bow before the haiku. Bow before the haiku! Can you imagine." "For my part," contributed the Count, "I am glad that Homer wasn't born in Japan." Mishka
Amor Towles
#2. Architecture is a discipline that takes time and patience. If one spends enough years writing complex novels one might be able, someday, to construct a respectable haiku.
Thom Mayne
#3. An idea sparked in the 1960s, a thought experiment, an amusing haiku, is now a thing of metal and glass.
Janna Levin
#4. The good things aren't a movie. There isn't enough to make a reel. The good things are a poem, barely longer than a haiku. There
Cheryl Strayed
#5. He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.
Matsuo Basho
#6. Mists may blur vision,
Doubts to lies are heavy mists,
Truth clears for all ways."
~ Angelica Hopes, Haiku
an excerpt from If I Could Tell You
Angelica Hopes
#7. Dreams like a podcast,
Downloading truth in my ears.
They tell me cool stuff."
"Apollo?" I guess, because I figured nobody else could make a haiku that bad.
He put his finger to his lips. "I'm incognito. Call me Fred."
"A god named Fred?
Rick Riordan
#8. I had never thought of haiku, or any kind of poetry for that matter, as a social activity.
Abigail Friedman
#9. NEW HAIKU
One breathy vowel
mists the glass warming window
panes crystalled with snow
Robin Glasser
Robin Glasser
#10. Haiku is a way of culling things from the stream of things that rush past the senses.
Michael J. Rosen
#11. A goodbye at the gate," said Hobie. He seemed to be talking partly to himself. "That's what he would have wanted. The parting glimpse, the death haiku - he wouldn't have liked to leave without stopping to speak to someone along the way. 'A teahouse amid the cherry blossoms on the way to death.
Donna Tartt
#12. Sure, sis!' Then he raised his hands in a stop everything gesture. 'I feel a haiku coming on.
Rick Riordan
#13. A Dear John haiku:
This isn't working.
I hope we can still be friends.
Please don't kill my cat.
Tom Dheere
#14. I stared at his cock, mesmerized. Even encased in rubber it remained a thing of true beauty. Had I any talent with a pen, I'd have written it poems. A haiku perhaps ... I was hypnotized, helpless. Cock-struck.
Kylie Scott
#15. Reading haiku is as much an art as writing it. The reader needs to pause and listen to the silences, to feel the spaces between the words, and to journey into the depths of many multi-colored worlds.
Harley King
#16. The love of nature is religion, and that religion is poetry; these three things are one thing. This is the unspoken creed of haiku poets.
R.H. Blyth
#17. I was satisfied with haiku until I met you, but now I want a Russian novel,
a 50-page description of you sleeping.
Dean Young
#18. I mean just look at haiku, the idea of it. We want to focus on that singularity, on that simplicity, but we still want to add features and add value, but we want to do it in a way that fits in with that mentality of simplicity. You have to spend a lot of time thinking about it.
Biz Stone
#19. HAIKU Dropped a blueberry Under the oven it rolls Goodbye, forever
Asa Akira
#20. 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
#21. My first publication was a haiku in a children's magazine when I was 9 years old. I received one dollar for it! I gave the check to my dad for Christmas, and he framed it and hung it over his desk.
Linda Sue Park
#22. A haiku is not a poem, it is not literature; it is a hand beckoning, a door half-opened, a mirror wiped clean. It is a way of returning to nature, to our moon nature, our cherry blossom nature, our falling leaf nature, in short, to our Buddha nature.
R.H. Blyth
#23. Besides, if you want to write something perfect, write a haiku. Anything longer is bound to have a few passages that don't work as well as they might.
Philip Pullman
#24. I am an admirer of haiku, and I'm a great admirer of Japanese literature in general.
Richard Flanagan
#25. I guess haiku is an inspiration for me. Everyday, simple moments.
Misha Collins
#26. Maine Haiku
"Winter don't matter
when there's steaming lobster and
girls are steaming hot.
Beryl Dov
#27. I wrote this HAIKU cuz today NYC definitely looks like a wonderland. ENJOY
what is winter but
a pastry chef gone crazy
frosting all in sight
Robin Glasser
have fun in the snow
Robin Glasser
#28. I write the occasional entry for the 'Times' Theatre blog, especially when I'm in London and seeing two shows a day, but I don't tweet. I don't want to have to express my opinion in 140 characters. That's like writing haiku. You need a certain amount of legroom to review a play properly.
Ben Brantley
#29. Miss Universe Contest Protest Haiku
Fundamentalists
protest Miss Universe contest.
Go home, beat their wives.
Beryl Dov
#30. Perfection cannot be achieved by men," he told me. "Our highest calling is the pursuit of perfection. My haiku will be finished when I die, but it will never be perfect.
Andrew Vachss
#31. In prose, you have a lot more room for digression, for very meaty kinds of dialogues. In graphic novels, you're writing haiku-length dialogue. Your job is to be efficient, to get out of the way of the art.
G. Willow Wilson
#32. A book cover is a distillation. It is a haiku of the story.
Chip Kidd
#33. Haiku is not a shriek, a howl, a sigh, or a yawn; rather, it is the deep breath of life.
Santoka Taneda
#34. Writing a picture book is like writing 'War and Peace' in Haiku.
Mem Fox
#35. To me, photography is not just a visual art, but something closer to poetry - or at least to some poetry, such as the haiku.
Frank Horvat
#37. Having examined three thousand haiku poems - two persimmons.
Masaoka Shiki
#38. On his death bed, the eighteenth-century haiku poet Shisui had finally responded to requests for a death poem by grabbing his brush, painting his poem, and dying. On the paper Shisui's shocked followers saw he had painted a circle.
Richard Flanagan
#39. The author of haiku should be absent, and only the haiku present.
Anne Bancroft
#40. Books provide context and allow you to think about things over time. Film is like writing haiku; there is an immense amount of pleasure in paring down and paring down. But it isn't the same.
Geoffrey Ward
#41. 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 Basho
#42. Mom Memorial Haiku [1]
I feel my mom so
much alive in me that there's
not even room for me.
Beryl Dov
#43. Tidal waves surge forward,
And in their wake, Stale water is replenished.
(Haiku from Chapter Thirty, SHADOWWATER)
Wendy Shreve
#44. Used to be goddy Now uptown feeling shoddy Bah, haiku don't rhyme
Rick Riordan
#45. over 19,000 haiku about Spam - "Spamku" - have to this date been posted online.
Jane Hirshfield
#46. Indra Haiku
Diddling Ahala,
Indra, the Thousand-Eyed God,
flecked with vaginas.
Beryl Dov
#48. A haiku is the expression of a temporary enlightenment, in which we see into the life of things.
Reginald Horace Blyth
#49. Life breathed spring (haiku)
spring awakening
dance of lovers
delicately wrapped in cherry blossoms
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
#50. It's hard to write haiku. I write long, silly Indian poems.
Jack Kerouac
#51. 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
#52. I recently got into Haiku in Japan and I just think it's fantastic. Obviously, when you get rid of a whole section of illusion in your mind you're left with great precision.
John Lennon
#53. But a haiku by Buson came into his mind: 'I try to forget this senile love; a chilly autumn shower.' The gloom only grew denser.
Yasunari Kawabata
#54. What is the beauty of the haiku is that it is not simplistic. The beauty of the haiku I just said is very complex. It reaches all the complexities of our life on this Earth. Peace - that's a very complex idea, peace, so we can't get it as human beings.
Sonia Sanchez
#55. This is a haiku
Haiku's don't have to make sense
Refrigerator
Anonymous
#56. Every week it's another opportunity to really make that work and figure out how to make it work better. And I love that it's like theater, too, and the audience, and it's so short. It's only 20 minutes. It's like a haiku or something.
Joan Cusack
#57. And so I was left with a mantra, a sort of haiku version of our relationship: I don't regret one day I spent with him, nor did I leave a moment too soon.
Padma Lakshmi
#58. I've seen people twitter in haiku only.
Biz Stone
#59. I usually begin a poem in longhand. I like to sit where I have a nice view, ideally, although I worked on haiku this weekend at an airport. I'm not one to romanticize inspiration. I try to get to the work.
Pat Mora
#60. Relationship Haiku
Friendship needs just two.
Hot relationships needs three.
But bitches can't count.
Beryl Dov
#61. Reading haiku is like viewing a photograph or a painting. A haiku is a moment of time, isolated, and held up for viewing.
Harley King
#62. haiku moment: that moment of absolute intensity when the poet's grasp of his intuition is complete, so that the image lives its own life. Such
Kenneth Yasuda
#63. Regarding R. H. Blyth: Two men who may be called pillars of the Western haiku movement, Harold G. Henderson and R. H. Blyth ...
Reginald Horace Blyth
#64. Remember technology does not make good work. You can still write a poem on a brown paper bag, and haiku is just as profound as the pyramids.
James Turrell
#65. These are some of the characteristics of the state of mind which the creation and appreciation of haiku demand: Selflessness, Loneliness, Grateful Acceptance, Wordlessness, Non-intellectuality, Contradictoriness, Humor, Freedom, Non-morality, Simplicity, Materiality, Love, and Courage.
R.H. Blyth
#66. The haiku lets meaning float; the aphorism pins it down.
Mason Cooley
#67. Venison Haiku
Deer, O dear, you're
heart's centered in my cross-hairs.
I love venison.
Beryl Dov
#68. Most of these editors, as they call themselves, couldn't even effectively edit a haiku.
Frank Black
#69. I often think of my work as visual haiku. It is an attempt to evoke and suggest through as few elements as possible rather than to describe with tremendous detail.
Michael Kenna
#70. Haiku sounds like I'm Saying hi to someone named Ku. Hi, Ku. Hello.
Ellen DeGeneres
#71. The only problem
with Haiku is that you just
get started and then
Roger McGough
#72. The haiku reproduces the designating gesture of the child pointing at whatever it is (the haiku shows no partiality for the subject), merely saying: that!
Roland Barthes
#73. I actually like doing commercials. I don't like doing them to the exclusion of everything else, but I like doing them. The 30-second format is very hard. I sometimes call it American Haiku. And I think some of the commercials I've done are not so bad.
Errol Morris
#74. Eminem found a legendary voucher in the form of Dr. Dre. He also perfected a unique performance style: as Sasha Frere-Jones wrote in "Haiku for Eminem" after the release of The Marshall Mathers LP, "The way you sound black/when you are conversating/but white when you rap.
Matthew Gasteier
#75. So I don't think I'll make Poet Laureate,
but I swear I'm not twisted and bitter,
If finely-wrought talents
don't weigh in the balance,
I can always write haiku on Twitter.
Rosy Cole
#76. Percy shrugged. Okay. But a word of advice: when you see Apollo, don't mention haiku.
Rick Riordan
#77. I seldom feel trapped by my world. Setting up rules and restrictions is part of the process. It gives your world shape. I always look at these things like haiku: you have to work within certain parameters, but within them, you're completely free.
Richard Kadrey
#78. Mizuta Masahide's haiku: "My barn having burned down / I can now see the moon.
Sarah Lewis
#79. Yoko [Ono] was showing me some of these Haiku in the original. The difference between them and Long fellow is immense. Instead of a long flowery poem the Haiku would say 'Yellow flower in white bowl on wooden table' which gives you the whole picture.
John Lennon
#80. Exhale the remnants/Of wounds that steal your freedom./No more prisons. Breathe.
Staci Backauskas
#81. the wall iris
opens its buds:
before my eyes
the last spring
begins to fade
Shiki Masaoka
#82. Moon woke me up
nine times
- still just 4 a.m.
Basho Matsuo
#84. We are successful
the moment we start toward
a laudable goal
J. Benson
#85. Still in bed at noon.
Everyday is Saturday,
when you are a whore.
Asa Akira
#86. I tried to speak your poems
but I could not!
The weeping of the gods
fell upon my ears.
Shiki Masaoka
#87. Glittering tinsel,
lights, glass balls, and candy canes
dangle from pine trees.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#88. Whirling of her skirts,
a chequered carpet beneath-
sunset dawns outside.
Geetika Kohli
#89. Bruised knees cramp my style.
They scream cheap whore,
when I am an expensive one.
Asa Akira
#91. Everyone in this house
has gray hair, walks with a cane,
visits the graveyard
Matsuo Basho
#92. I
Keep writing.
Not because I want to.
It's a respiratory illness.
Jonathan Heatt
#93. The behavior of the pigeon
is beyond reproach,
but the mountain cuckoo?
Yosa Buson
#94. You think it's a game?
Unintelligible? Ha!
Envision no spoons.
This is serious.
It is a matter of joy
versus emptiness.
Kristen Henderson
#96. It is easy to believe we are each waves and forget we are also the ocean.
Jon J. Muth
#97. Semper Fidelis
Dawn star flares on disk of night
I fall, sun rises
Neal Stephenson
#98. As a woman still,
without the right kind of mouth,
my tongue's of no use.
Kristen Henderson
#99. I wax poetic
On the beauty of sewers
Real short poem. Done
Rick Riordan
#100. dozing on horseback
smoke form the tea-fires
drifts to the moon
Basho Matsuo
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