Buddhism Quote by Reginald Horace Blyth

Haiku is a way of culling things from the stream of things that rush past the senses.

— Michael J. Rosen

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

Haiku is a particularly Zen form of poetry; for Zen detests egoism in the form of calculated effects or self-glorification of any sort. The…

— Anne Bancroft

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

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

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,…

— Santoka Taneda

“Haiku What you think about You bring about in your life. Manifest wisely.”

— Sanjo Jendayi

Haiku is not a shriek, a howl, a sigh, or a yawn; rather, it is the deep breath of life.

— Santoka Taneda

I often think of my work as visual haiku. It is an attempt to evoke and suggest through as few elements as possible rather…

— Michael Kenna

What is the beauty of the haiku is that it is not simplistic. The beauty of the haiku I just said is very complex.…

— Sonia Sanchez

“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

I guess haiku is an inspiration for me. Everyday, simple moments.

— Misha Collins