Acceptance Quote by Reginald Horace Blyth

A haiku is the expression of a temporary enlightenment, in which we see into the life of things.

— Reginald Horace Blyth

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

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

— Michael J. Rosen

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

“good haiku are full of overtones. The elusiveness that is one of their chief charms comes, not from haziness, but from the fact that…

— Harold G. Henderson

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

— Sanjo Jendayi

“I had never thought of haiku, or any kind of poetry for that matter, as a social activity.”

— Abigail Friedman

“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

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

The love of nature is religion, and that religion is poetry; these three things are one thing. This is the unspoken creed of haiku…

— Reginald Horace Blyth