Aphorism Quote by Mason Cooley Download Open image “The haiku lets meaning float; the aphorism pins it down.” — Mason Cooley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Aphorism Floats Haiku Let me Pins
Haiku is a way of culling things from the stream of things that rush past the senses. — Michael J. Rosen Copy Share Image
A haiku is the expression of a temporary enlightenment, in which we see into the life of things. — Reginald Horace Blyth Copy Share Image
Haiku is an art that seems dedicated to making people pay attention to the preciousness and particularity of every moment of existence. I think… — Robert Hass 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 suggestiveness, through… — Reginald Horace Blyth Copy Share Image
“haiku were not written to be weighed down with commentary. (Buson, p. 103)” — Harold G. Henderson 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 this way,… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“Maybe that's a haiku, maybe not, it might be a little too complicated," said Japhy. "A real haiku's gotta be as simple as porridge… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The haiku reproduces the designating gesture of the child pointing at whatever it is (the haiku shows no partiality for the subject), merely saying:… — Roland Barthes 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 Acceptance, Wordlessness,… — Reginald Horace Blyth Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“For their never-ending endeavours to obtain or retain wealth, countries desperately need companies, because they—unlike most human beings—have the means of production, and human… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“An expensive coffin does not decrease the deceased’s chances of going to hell.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
A journal takes the place of a confidant, that is, of friend or wife; it becomes a substitute for production, a substitute for country… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“The real purpose of the opposition is to minimize the amount of money the ruling party will have stolen from the people at the… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
