Haiku Quotes - Page 2

• What I'm trying to do is to tell young people that I teach them how to breathe before I teach the haiku. That one breath, that one breath, because the haiku keeps you alive. It keeps you going. If you learn how to breath the haiku, you learn how to breathe. If you learn how to breathe, you're much healthier.

  Sonia Sanchez

  People, Trying, Alive

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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

  Thinking, Japan, Mind

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• What is the beauty of the haiku is that it is not simplistic. The beauty of the haiku I just said is very complex. It reaches all the complexities of our life on this Earth. Peace - that's a very complex idea, peace, so we can't get it as human beings.

  Sonia Sanchez

  Ideas, Earth, Said

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The world of dew is the world of dew. And yet, and yet--

  Kobayashi Issa

  Dew, World

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• Having examined three thousand haiku poems - two persimmons.

  Masaoka Shiki

  Food, Two, Cooking

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• Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice

  Matsuo Basho

  Ice, Water, Sound

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• Poems are language turned into art; sound and sense matter; they can be as long or longer than The Odyssey or as short or shorter than a haiku. Not very helpful.

  Campbell McGrath

  Art, Long, Odyssey

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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

  Writing, Technology, Pyramids

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• I'm not a haiku artist, but I wanted to use the phrase 5, 7, 5 in the melody that flows over time. So the string melody, the first one is five notes, the next one is seven, and then the third one is five.

  Terry Bozzio

  Artist, Flow, Next

  Source: beintheloopchicago.com

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• 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

  Love, Appreciation, Loneliness

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• Sure, sis!' Then he raised his hands in a stop everything gesture. 'I feel a haiku coming on.

  Rick Riordan

  Hands, Gestures, Raised

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Titan's curse”

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• 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

  Photography, Thinking, Details

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• Dreams like podcast. Downloading truth in my ears. They tell me cool stuff.

  Rick Riordan

  Dream, Ears, Stuff

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Titan's curse”

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• 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

  Children, Dad, Years

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• Performance art is going to be the future. Plays on Broadway are so restricted. But performance art is like haikus, just one line thing. And it's more casual but more interesting.

  Yoko Ono

  Art, Play, Interesting

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• Artemis grit her teeth. "I need a favor. I have some hunting to do, alone. I need you to take my companions to Camp Half-Blood." "Sure Sis!" then he raised his hands in a "stop everything" gesture. "I feel a haiku comIng on." The Hunters all groaned. Apparently they'd met Apollo before. He cleared his throat and held up one hand dramatically. "Green grass breaks through snow. Artemis pleads for my help. I am so awesome.

  Rick Riordan

  Hunting, Blood, Hands

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• 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

  Sleep, Want, Pages

  Dean Young (2011). “Fall Higher”, p.75, Copper Canyon Press

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• Like a Passover Poet gliding from house to house and from trembling soul to trembling soul the wind scribbled sonnets of first time love and weeping haikus of last hours on earth.

  Aberjhani

  Love, Wind, House

  Aberjhani (2010). “The River of Winged Dreams (Hardcover Gift Edition)”, p.6, Lulu.com

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• A book cover is a distillation. It is a haiku of the story.

  Chip Kidd

  Inspirational, Motivational, Book

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• Giddy grasshopper Take care...do not leap and crush These pearls of dewdrop

  Kobayashi Issa

  Crush, Care, Pearls

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• 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, insects cry, water flows. There is no place we cannot find flowers or think of the moon. This is the essence of haiku. Go beyond the restrictions of your era, forget about purpose or meaning, separate yourself from historical limitations—there you will find the essence of true art, religion, and science.

  Santoka Taneda

  Art, Real, Flower

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• The sun shines, snow falls, mountains rise and valleys sink, night deepens and pales into day, but it is only very seldom that we attend to such things. . . . When we are grasping the inexpressible meaning of these things, this is life, this is living. To do this twenty-four hours a day is the Way of Haiku. It is having life more abundantly.

  Reginald Horace Blyth

  Life, Fall, Night

  Reginald Horace Blyth (1995). “The genius of haiku: readings from R.H. Blyth on poetry, life, and Zen”

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• Old dark sleepy pool... Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!

  Matsuo Basho

  Dark, Frogs, Unexpected

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• Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice... Or backyard love?

  Matsuo Basho

  Cat, Backyards, Fats

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• Until today, it really pissed me off that I'd become this totally centered Zen Master and nobody had noticed. Still, I'm doing the little FAX thing. I write little HAIKU things and FAX them around to everyone. When I pass people in the hall at work, I get totally ZEN right in everyone's hostile little FACE.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Writing, People, Fax

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