Autumn Quote by Yasunari Kawabata

“Three Haiku, Two Tanka (Kyoto) CONFIDENCE (after Bashō) Clouds murmur darkly, it is a blinding habit— gazing at the moon. TIME OF JOY (after…

— Philip Appleman

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

— Michael J. Rosen

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

“November Haiku: No good November lays a red carpet of leaves rains on its parade.”

— Akash Mandal

“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

“haiku were not written to be weighed down with commentary. (Buson, p. 103)”

— Harold G. Henderson

“RAGING MIND - A HAIKU Uncontrollable, Thoughts flow, attention decides, If there's peace, or pain!”

— Amogh Swamy

“The Essential Haiku: Versions of Bashō, Buson, & Issa, edited by Robert Hass.”

— Michael Wallace

“NEW HAIKU One breathy vowel mists the glass warming window panes crystalled with snow Robin Glasser”

— Robin Glasser

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

— Reginald Horace Blyth

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

— Abigail Friedman

“Beauty of a haiku is its limitations.”

— Nanette L. Avery