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The only problem with Haiku is that you just get started and then -- Roger McGough
Haiku is a way of culling things from the stream of things that rush past the senses. -- Michael J. Rosen
Haiku is not a shriek, a howl, a sigh, or a yawn; rather, it is the deep breath of life. -- Santoka Taneda
I recently got into Haiku in Japan and I just think it's fantastic. Obviously, when you get rid of a whole section of illusion in your mind you're left with great precision. -- John Lennon
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 author of haiku should be absent, and only the haiku present. -- Anne Bancroft
Yoko [Ono] was showing me some of these Haiku in the original. The difference between them and Long fellow is immense. Instead of a long flowery poem the Haiku would say 'Yellow flower in white bowl on wooden table' which gives you the whole picture. -- John Lennon
Writing a picture book is like writing 'War and Peace' in Haiku. -- Mem Fox
Haiku sounds like I'm Saying hi to someone named Ku. Hi, Ku. Hello. -- Ellen DeGeneres
Meaning lies as much in the mind of the reader as in the Haiku. -- Douglas Hofstadter
Tidal waves surge forward,And in their wake, Stale water is replenished.(Haiku from Chapter Thirty, SHADOWWATER) -- Wendy Shreve
Haiku is an art that seems dedicated to making people pay attention to the preciousness and particularity of every moment of existence. I think that poetry can do that. -- Robert Hass
I actually like doing commercials. I don't like doing them to the exclusion of everything else, but I like doing them. The 30-second format is very hard. I sometimes call it American Haiku. And I think some of the commercials I've done are not so bad. -- Errol Morris
O snail Climb Mount Fuji But slowly, slowly! -- Kobayashi Issa
The haiku lets meaning float; the aphorism pins it down. -- Mason Cooley
A book cover is a distillation. It is a haiku of the story. -- Chip Kidd
The world of dew is the world of dew. And yet, and yet-- -- Kobayashi Issa
Most of my videos consist of fragments, one or two minutes long. They are haikus or sketches. I have thousands. -- Jonas Mekas
Regarding R. H. Blyth: Two men who may be called pillars of the Western haiku movement, Harold G. Henderson and R. H. Blyth. . . . -- Reginald Horace Blyth
He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master. -- Matsuo Basho
The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of. -- Matsuo Basho
To me, photography is not just a visual art, but something closer to poetry - or at least to some poetry, such as the haiku. -- Frank Horvat
The haiku reproduces the designating gesture of the child pointing at whatever it is (the haiku shows no partiality for the subject), merely saying: that! -- Roland Barthes
But a haiku by Buson came into his mind: 'I try to forget this senile love; a chilly autumn shower.' The gloom only grew denser. -- Yasunari Kawabata
Architecture is a discipline that takes time and patience. If one spends enough years writing complex novels one might be able, someday, to construct a respectable haiku. -- Thom Mayne
I often think of my work as visual haiku. It is an attempt to evoke and suggest through as few elements as possible rather than to describe with tremendous detail. -- Michael Kenna
My first publication was a haiku in a children's magazine when I was 9 years old. I received one dollar for it! I gave the check to my dad for Christmas, and he framed it and hung it over his desk. -- Linda Sue Park
When composing a verse let there not be a hair's breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy. -- Matsuo Bash?Creating
The similarity between Van Gogh, Haiku poetry, and good photography is the concern for mortality. That things are very fleeting, that there are people who are more sensitive to death than others. The threat of time is of great concern to them. And the camera is a very appropriate instrument for many. -- Dennis Stock
Some of my pictures are poem-like in the sense that they are very condensed, haiku-lik. There are others that, if they were poetry, would be more like Ezra Pound. There is a lot of information in most of my pictures, but not the kind of information you see in documentary photography. There is emotional information in my photographs. -- Sally Mann
A bush-warbler,Coming to the verandah-edge,Left its droppingsOn the rice-cakes. -- Matsuo Bash?Birds
When composing a verse let there not be a hair's breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy. -- Matsuo Bash?Creating
I've seen people twitter in haiku only. -- Biz Stone
Having examined three thousand haiku poems - two persimmons. -- Masaoka Shiki
I guess haiku is an inspiration for me. Everyday, simple moments. -- Misha Collins
The author of haiku should be absent, and only the haiku present. -- Anne Bancroft
Most of these editors, as they call themselves, couldn't even effectively edit a haiku. -- Frank Black
I am an admirer of haiku, and I'm a great admirer of Japanese literature in general. -- Richard Flanagan
A haiku is the expression of a temporary enlightenment, in which we see into the life of things. -- Reginald Horace Blyth
Sure, sis!' Then he raised his hands in a stop everything gesture. 'I feel a haiku coming on. -- Rick Riordan
I was satisfied with haiku until I met you, but now I want a Russian novel, a 50-page description of you sleeping. -- Dean Young
Reading haiku is like viewing a photograph or a painting. A haiku is a moment of time, isolated, and held up for viewing. -- Harley King
How many midget feet can you fit in your shoes? Depends on how big your penis is. Mine is 17 syllables long, like a haiku. -- Jarod Kintz
The love of nature is religion, and that religion is poetry; these three things are one thing. This is the unspoken creed of haiku poets. -- Reginald Horace Blyth
Remember technology does not make good work. You can still write a poem on a brown paper bag, and haiku is just as profound as the pyramids. -- James Turrell
These are some of the characteristics of the state of mind which the creation and appreciation of haiku demand: Selflessness, Loneliness, Grateful Acceptance, Wordlessness, Non-intellectuality, Contradictoriness, Humor, Freedom, Non-morality, Simplicity, Materiality, Love, and Courage. -- Reginald Horace Blyth
Books provide context and allow you to think about things over time. Film is like writing haiku; there is an immense amount of pleasure in paring down and paring down. But it isn't the same. -- Geoffrey Ward

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