Haiku Quotes

45 quotes by 26 authors

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,… — Reginald Horace Blyth
Like a Passover Poet gliding from house to house and from trembling soul to trembling soul the wind scribbled sonnets of first time love and… — Aberjhani
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… — Richard Kadrey
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… — James Turrell
A book cover is a distillation. It is a haiku of the story. — Chip Kidd
Haiku is not a shriek, a howl, a sigh, or a yawn; rather, it is the deep breath of life. — Santoka Taneda
Real haiku is the soul of poetry. Anything that is not actually present in one's heart is not haiku. The moon glows, flowers bloom, insects… — Santoka Taneda
A haiku is the expression of a temporary enlightenment, in which we see into the life of things. — Reginald Horace Blyth
The sun shines, snow falls, mountains rise and valleys sink, night deepens and pales into day, but it is only very seldom that we attend… — Reginald Horace Blyth
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. — Reginald Horace Blyth
It is not merely the brevity by which the haiku isolates a particular group of phenomena from all the rest; nor its suggestiveness, through which… — Reginald Horace Blyth
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… — Thom Mayne
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
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… — Reginald Horace Blyth
Regarding R. H. Blyth: The first book in English based on the saijiki is R. H. Blyth's Haiku, published in four volumes from 1949 to… — Reginald Horace Blyth
I've seen people twitter in haiku only. — Biz Stone
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… — Michael Kenna
The author of haiku should be absent, and only the haiku present. — Anne Bancroft
Most of my videos consist of fragments, one or two minutes long. They are haikus or sketches. I have thousands. — Jonas Mekas
Performance art is going to be the future. Plays on Broadway are so restricted. But performance art is like haikus, just one line thing. And… — Yoko Ono

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26 authors contributed a total of 45 Haiku Quotes, led by these top contributors: