Beauty Quote by Sonia Sanchez

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

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

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

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

— Reginald Horace Blyth

“Beauty of a haiku is its limitations.”

— Nanette L. Avery

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

— Misha Collins

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

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

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

— Michael J. Rosen

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

“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

“This book by Dr. Yasuda, while ostensibly about haiku, in reality penetrates deeply into the totality of this living spirit of Japan. It deals…

— Kenneth Yasuda