Quotes on Haiku

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

Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Mountain-rose petals Falling, falling, falling now... Waterfall music

O snail Climb Mount Fuji But slowly, slowly!

Meaning lies as much in the mind of the reader as in the Haiku.