Zen Haiku Quotes

#1. It is easy to believe we are each waves and forget we are also the ocean.

Jon J. Muth

#2. The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#3. 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

#4. In pale moonlight / the wisteria's scent / comes from far away.

Yosa Buson

#5. 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

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

Santoka Taneda

#7. By the age of thirteen, any blossoming girl knows the power she possesses over boys. By the time she's thirty she's come to realize men would stoop to fucking chickens under the right circumstances.

Jack Dancer

#8. It is a nice thing to be working and believing in my work again. I hope I can keep the drive. I only feel whole and well when it is this way.

John Steinbeck

#9. Do you know why it is that, even today, women are counseled to scream "fire" instead of "rape"? Because the fundamental truth about humanity is that most people would rather look away.

Michelle Hodkin

#10. Soldiers falling fast
Battle of white and scarlet
Blossoms on the ground

David Kudler

#11. it mattered less what your origins were, and more what work you were willing to do; how hard you'd fight for the men around you.

Alexandra Bracken

#12. 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

#13. The Buddhist approach to this collective suffering is to turn toward it. We understand that genuine happiness and meaning will come through tending to suffering. We overcome out own despair bby helping other to overcome theirs.

Jack Kornfield

#14. There are characters that become more popular as we fall in love with them.

Dan Scanlon

#15. Our family has lived in Iran for 2,500 years, and Iranian Jewry has the long history in that land.

Moshe Katsav