Japanese Poetry Quotes

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

Haiku sounds like I'm Saying hi to someone named Ku. Hi, Ku. Hello.

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.

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.

The old pond, ah! A frog jumps in: The water's sound.

Old pond, frog jumps in - plop.

I've seen people twitter in haiku only.

There is no hierarchy in Japanese Buddhist poetry.

I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late.

What you feel in Japanese poetry is always entirely longing.

Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.

'The Narrow Road to the Deep North' is one of the most famous books of all Japanese literature, written by the great poet Basho in 1689.

It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe; but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found - indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese.

Basho is the great poet of Japan, writing in the second half of the 17th century, but his work is still incredibly fresh.

If you wanted to, you could write history in Haiku.

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

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.

I mean just look at haiku, the idea of it. We want to focus on that singularity, on that simplicity, but we still want to add features and add value, but we want to do it in a way that fits in with that mentality of simplicity. You have to spend a lot of time thinking about it.

There is a sense of motion and a concise, immediate image in haikus and Anishinaabe dream songs.

I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation.

The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry.

The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.

It's hard to write haiku. I write long, silly Indian poems.

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.