Haiku Quotes
Haiku Quote of the day
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.
Haiku is not a shriek, a howl, a sigh, or a yawn; rather, it is the deep breath of life.
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.
He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.
The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.
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.
Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds.
Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.
The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion–– cools your fears with peace.
Your pain is a school unto itself–– and your joy a lovely temple.
I was satisfied with haiku until I met you, but now I want a Russian novel, a 50-page description of you sleeping.
A haiku is the expression of a temporary enlightenment, in which we see into the life of things.
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!
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.
Feet sandaled with dreams tread paths of vision leading to wisdom’s sharp peaks.
To me, photography is not just a visual art, but something closer to poetry - or at least to some poetry, such as the haiku.
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.
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.
Poems are language turned into art; sound and sense matter; they can be as long or longer than The Odyssey or as short or shorter than a haiku. Not very helpful.
History dressed up in the glow of love’s kiss turned grief into beauty.
You are the hybrids of golden worlds and ages splendidly conceived.
The Hulk is like a haiku; you've got to find just the right words. I think, and I hope, we did that with The Avengers.
Haiku is a way of culling things from the stream of things that rush past the senses.
Regarding R. H. Blyth: Two men who may be called pillars of the Western haiku movement, Harold G. Henderson and R. H. Blyth. . . .
Sure, sis!' Then he raised his hands in a stop everything gesture. 'I feel a haiku coming on.
Haiku is an art that seems dedicated to making people pay attention to the preciousness and particularity of every moment of existence. I think that poetry can do that.
A smile, like the poet's muse, Inspires passion in the lover's heart
Stretched by an idea, we can aspire to new heights, new ways of thinking.
If this were real life, Ed would have looked at her neck-bite, dead, burp, credits.
The blue of daylightfades and chills as the sun sinksbeneath clouds of fire.
Because, " said a boy."Because why?" asked a young girl."Because I love you.
A whiff of fresh mintthat tastes like strawberry pie.Your kisses tempt me.
