Haiku Quotes - Page 3

• Every time I try to disown that concept for myself, which is a really healthy perspective, they bring it back all the time. It's so serious and so real and so tangible that you don't want to taint it with anything other than the thing itself. I was tickled pink with my very zen self, walking around saying that I made a record because I wanted to make a record. That's so beautiful. It's like a haiku poem. That takes away all the tension and the expectation. I just want to try to do something interesting.

  Gavin Rossdale

  Beautiful, Real, Self

  Source: collider.com

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• 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

  Flower, Yellow, White

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• 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

  Photography, People, Cameras

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• But then foreign critics right away made sweeping comparisons to haiku, noh theater, and directors like Ozu, as if the movie were somehow representative of Japan - which was, well, not what I was after. Similarly, with After Life, I deliberately set out to make a movie that was unlike what I imagined the foreign conception of Japan to be, and I figured non-Japanese wouldn't find it interesting at all.

  Hirokazu Koreeda

  Japan, Interesting, Noh

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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.

  Biz Stone

  Mean, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The Hulk is like a haiku; you've got to find just the right words. I think, and I hope, we did that with The Avengers.

  Joss Whedon

  Thinking

  Source: www.fanbolt.com

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• So many people are looking for news on the go. If you really want to understand the world, you're not going to by consuming news in the form of bite-sized haikus. I'm sorry to step up on a soapbox, but I have strong feelings about this.

  Michele Norris

  Strong, Sorry, People

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• 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

  Men, Two, May

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• 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

  Thinking, Done, Exclusion

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I usually begin a poem in longhand. I like to sit where I have a nice view, ideally, although I worked on haiku this weekend at an airport. I'm not one to romanticize inspiration. I try to get to the work.

  Pat Mora

  Nice, Inspiration, Weekend

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Good genre movies are a little bit like trying to write a haiku. There are certain things that you have to do to fulfill the audience's expectations, but inside that, you have complete freedom to talk about whatever you want. Who wants to see a movie about gun violence in America and class? But, if you set it in this terrifying, fun, roller coaster ride of a movie, you can talk about whatever you want. That's been the game that genre movies play, when they do it well.

  Ethan Hawke

  Fun, Writing, Gun

  "Ethan Hawke Talks THE PURGE, Making Genre Movies, What the Film Says about Society, Violence in the Media, the Rating System, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 3, 2013.

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• Green grass breaks through snow, Artemis pleads for my help, I am so cool.

  Rick Riordan

  Break Through, Snow, Green

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

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• Regarding R. H. Blyth: Blyth's four volume Haiku became especially popular at this time [1950's] because his translations were based on the assumption that the haiku was the poetic expression of Zen. Not surprisingly, his books attracted the attention of the Beat school, most notably writers such as Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder and Jack Kerouac, all of whom had a prior interest in Zen.

  Reginald Horace Blyth

  Book, School, Expression

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• Regarding R. H. Blyth: The first book in English based on the saijiki is R. H. Blyth's Haiku, published in four volumes from 1949 to 1952. After the first, background volume, the remaining three consist of a collection of Japanese haiku with translations, all organized by season, and within the seasons by traditional categories and about three hundred seasonal topics.

  Reginald Horace Blyth

  Book, Topics, Firsts

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• A story is a story is a story. The only difference is in the techniques you bring to bear. There are always limitations on what you can and can't do. But I enjoy that. Just like when you write a sonnet or haiku, there are rules you have to abide by. And to me, playing within the rules is the fun part. It keeps the brain fresh.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Fun, Writing, Differences

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• Writing a picture book is like writing 'War and Peace' in Haiku.

  Mem Fox

  War, Book, Writing

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• I've seen people twitter in haiku only.

  Biz Stone

  People

  "To Tweet or Not to Tweet". Interview with Maureen Dowd, www.nytimes.com. April 21, 2009.

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• Most of my videos consist of fragments, one or two minutes long. They are haikus or sketches. I have thousands.

  Jonas Mekas

  Two, Long, Video

  "Short Films From a Long Life". Wired Interview, www.wired.com. December 18, 2006.

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• 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

  Photography, Emotional, Would Be

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• 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

  Autumn, Mind, Trying

  Yasunari Kawabata (2013). “The Sound of the Mountain”, p.210, Vintage

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• Dreams like a podcast, Downloading truth in my ears. They tell me cool stuff." "Apollo?" I guess, because I figured nobody else could make a haiku that bad. He put his finger to his lips. "I'm incognito. Call me Fred." "A god named Fred?

  Rick Riordan

  Dream, Apollo, Ears

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• Apollo?” I guessed… He put a finger to his lips. “I’m incognito. Call me Fred.” A god named Fred?

  Rick Riordan

  Apollo, Lips, Fingers

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• Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth.

  Aberjhani

  Names, Fire, Heaven

  Aberjhani (2010). “The River of Winged Dreams”, p.47, Lulu.com

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