Quotes About Haiku

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.

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

An old pond—A frog leaping in—The sound of water.

Summer moon - Clapping hands I herald dawn

And so I was left with a mantra, a sort of haiku version of our relationship: I don't regret one day I spent with him, nor did I leave a moment too soon.