“Over the wintry forest, winds howl in rage with no leaves to blow.” — Natsume Sōseki Copy Share Image
I wrote you a haiku but it had no grace. I wrote you a sonnet but ran out of space. Anyway here's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Haiku: Some will steal your thoughts Right out of your mouth as you Speak them in private.” — Sanjo Jendayi Copy Share Image
“Kareeda ni Karasu no tomarikeri Aki no kure trans: On a bare branch A crow is perched - Autumn evening” — Bashō Copy Share Image
To me, photography is not just a visual art, but something closer to poetry - or at least to some poetry, such… — Frank Horvat Copy Share Image
“Tiny Titans: A Haiku Ants toil with intent, Embrace chores they loathe and love, Unified spirits.” — Amogh Swamy 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
Architecture is a discipline that takes time and patience. If one spends enough years writing complex novels one might be able, someday,… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
“Our relationship is like ten turtles marching along, followed by seven beetles, with each carrying one monosyllabic word on its back. You… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“My children are monsters, Kiro thought. And I am responsible. Perhaps if I had read them the haikus of Basho when they… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
“A great Zen master said just before he died, "From the bathtub, to the bathtub, I have uttered stuff and nonsense." The… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
What is the beauty of the haiku is that it is not simplistic. The beauty of the haiku I just said is… — Sonia Sanchez 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 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 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
“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
Regarding R. H. Blyth: The first book in English based on the saijiki is R. H. Blyth's Haiku, published in four volumes… — Reginald Horace Blyth Copy Share Image
“ Japan Today I pass the time reading a favorite haiku, saying the few words over and over. It feels like eating… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Good genre movies are a little bit like trying to write a haiku. There are certain things that you have to do… — Ethan Hawke 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
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
Real haiku is the soul of poetry. Anything that is not actually present in one's heart is not haiku. The moon glows,… — Santoka Taneda Copy Share Image
“Amorous cat, alas You too must yowl with your love... or even worse, without!” — Yaha Copy Share Image
“176 Winter rain at night Sweetening the taste of bread And spicing the soup.” — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“Did you just say you Think Mansfield Park is boring? Get out of my house.” — Joel Derfner Copy Share Image
“Let's do it on the antimacassar, on the antimacassar -from Twenty Five Haiku” — Marilyn Chin Copy Share Image
“Come come! Come Out! From bogs old frogs command the dark and look...the stars” — Kikaku Copy Share Image
“Your tummy, soft as warm dough. I knead and knead, then bake it with a nap.” — Lee Wardlaw Copy Share Image
“Colored by a pure love, stay the night, and next day wake me with delight. (Kipyang: 'Hued')” — Kathleen Jane Borja Copy Share Image
But a haiku by Buson came into his mind: 'I try to forget this senile love; a chilly autumn shower.' The gloom… — Yasunari Kawabata 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 assumption that the haiku was the poetic expression of Zen. Not surprisingly, his books attracted the attention of the Beat school, most notably writers such…” quote by Reginald Horace Blyth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/43f/reginald-horace-blyth-18264_assumption_regarding-r-h-blyth-blyth-s-four-volume_2896816.jpg)
