“Friday Haiku: Friday is always four days late, but brings me beer, so we stay even.” — Akash Mandal Copy Share Image
“A box sits empty, wanting to hold and protect. Hollow tears it cries.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Cocoon's cry to first fly, Travels thousands of miles— So much in so little life.” — Ritu Negi Copy Share Image
“Don't touch my plumtree! Said my friend and saying so... Broke the branch for me” — Taigi Copy Share Image
“ So amaze! Such name! Sssssarah with five s's is Still two syllablessssss ” — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“Haiku Self-love sounds so good And it is, once you master Forgiving self first.” — Sanjo Jendayi Copy Share Image
“I had never thought of haiku, or any kind of poetry for that matter, as a social activity.” — Abigail Friedman Copy Share Image
“Oare ce-s nourii Daca nu o justificare a cerului? Oare ce-i viata Daca nu o amanare a mortii?” — James Clavell Copy Share Image
Performance art is going to be the future. Plays on Broadway are so restricted. But performance art is like haikus, just one… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
“A Dear John haiku: This isn’t working. I hope we can still be friends. Please don’t kill my cat.” — Tom Dheere Copy Share Image
“A school without a library is like a first aid box without medicines". Ravi Sathasivam / Sri Lanka - 2017” — Ravi Sathasivam / Sri Lanka Copy Share Image
“Tiny Titans: A Haiku Ants toil with intent, Embrace chores they loathe and love, Unified spirits.” — Amogh Swamy Copy Share Image
“Tidal waves surge forward, And in their wake, Stale water is replenished. (Haiku from Chapter Thirty, SHADOWWATER)” — Wendy Shreve Copy Share Image
Remember technology does not make good work. You can still write a poem on a brown paper bag, and haiku is just… — James Turrell Copy Share Image
“I'm writing haiku. Not for English class but just because. It turns out swearing off poetry doesn't work the way swearing off… — Sarah Dooley Copy Share Image
I used to approach writing like a football game. If I went out there and aggressively saw more, I'd know more, and… — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
“I would hate to see seventeen people with monosyllabic names like Mike or Ann die, but if they did, and you wrote… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I actually like doing commercials. I don't like doing them to the exclusion of everything else, but I like doing them. The… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
I'm not a haiku artist, but I wanted to use the phrase 5, 7, 5 in the melody that flows over time.… — Terry Bozzio Copy Share Image
These are some of the characteristics of the state of mind which the creation and appreciation of haiku demand: Selflessness, Loneliness, Grateful… — Reginald Horace Blyth Copy Share Image
“Men know how to read printed books; they do not know how to read the unprinted ones. They can play on a… — Kojisei Copy Share Image
“One useful way to approach a haiku is to understand each of its parts as pointing toward both world and self. Read… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
It is not merely the brevity by which the haiku isolates a particular group of phenomena from all the rest; nor its… — Reginald Horace Blyth Copy Share Image
“If death is like a sonnet then life would be a haiku. The sonnet, a lyrical poem, the beauty and magic with… — R.M. Engelhardt Copy Share Image
“This book by Dr. Yasuda, while ostensibly about haiku, in reality penetrates deeply into the totality of this living spirit of Japan.… — Kenneth Yasuda Copy Share Image
“Reminiscing in the drizzle of Portland, I notice the ring that’s landed on your finger, a massive insect of glitter, a chandelier… — Jeffrey McDaniel Copy Share Image
But then foreign critics right away made sweeping comparisons to haiku, noh theater, and directors like Ozu, as if the movie were… — Hirokazu Koreeda Copy Share Image
“Three Haiku, Two Tanka (Kyoto) CONFIDENCE (after Bashō) Clouds murmur darkly, it is a blinding habit— gazing at the moon. TIME OF… — Philip Appleman Copy Share Image
“He cleared his throat and held up one hand dramatically. “Green grass breaks through snow. Artemis pleads for my help. I am… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Regarding R. H. Blyth: Blyth's four volume Haiku became especially popular at this time [1950's] because his translations were based on the… — Reginald Horace Blyth Copy Share Image
“176 Winter rain at night Sweetening the taste of bread And spicing the soup.” — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“Over the wintry forest, winds howl in rage with no leaves to blow.” — Natsume Sōseki Copy Share Image
“Someone grabbed his coat Again, he stops his journey To be there with her” — Eric Overby Copy Share Image
“Each person you meet is an aspect of yourself, clamoring for love.” — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
“Amorous cat, alas You too must yowl with your love... or even worse, without!” — Yaha Copy Share Image