Haiku Quotes

I crouch in cornersThe infection is widespreadLove epidemic

~ A.a. Patawaran

Mountains clothed in snowRobed in white against blue skiesMirrored in the lake.

~ Timothy Salter

We wear many things,   but that with greatest import     is our expression.

~ J. Benson

Ceaseless.Almost too much for this small frame.You make me part of the sky.

~ Andrea Portes

Go put on your mask.Say 'trick-or-treat' in costume.It’s All Hallows Eve.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

A gentleman willNever allow a ladyTo feel less than grand.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Snowflakes fall from high.Flurries lift and twirl below.The world has turned white.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

My stomach rumbles.Plates of cookies, cake, and fudge.Christmastime is here.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Gingerbread houseswith gumdrops and peppermintand marshmallow snow.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Mary and Josephhuddle snugly together.They cradle God's son.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Wise men come to seea child of greater wisdomand honor divine.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Glittering tinsel,lights, glass balls, and candy canesdangle from pine trees.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

New light in the skyannounces a sacred birth.Shine brightly young star.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Hallelujah songcarries on a gentle wind,heralding a king.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Sheep and goats and cowsgather 'round a manger bedto awe at a babe.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Born on straw at nightunder low stable rafters,Baby Jesus cried.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Rare and precious gifts,gold and myrrh and frankincense,to offer a king.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

A new star shines bright.Angels herald the good news.The Christ child is born.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Shepherds lift their heads,not to gaze at a new lightbut to hear angels.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Wilted or in bloom,taking or lending daylight,the world transitions.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Oh, mightiest wind,wilt thou cease thy breathing inand hold thy exhales?

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Twinkle tiny star.Oh, how great you truly are!God's sign from afar.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

A whiff of fresh mintthat tastes like strawberry pie.Your kisses tempt me.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

The blue of daylightfades and chills as the sun sinksbeneath clouds of fire.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Compliments land assoft and gentle on my earsas a butterfly.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

A finger beckons.My choice is to turn away.It is a mistake.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

If this were real life,Ed would have looked at her neck-bite, dead, burp, credits.

~ Ryan Mecum

Stretched by an idea,   we can aspire to new heights,     new ways of thinking.

~ J. Benson

A smile, like the poet's muse,Inspires passion in the lover's heart

~ Alex Z. Moores

O snailClimb Mount FujiBut slowly, slowly!

~ Kobayashi Issa

For the greater good:the phrase that always precedesthe greatest evil.

~ Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski

My children are monsters, Kiro thought. And I am responsible. Perhaps if I had read them the haikus of Basho when they were little instead of that American manifesto of high-pressure sales, Green Eggs and Ham...

~ Christopher Moore

I write for pages,get lost in the mezzaninehidden from stages.

~ Kristen Henderson

Haiku does not express emotion from the inside out by displaying the mind of a character. Haiku builds the emotional thrust, makes the artistic statement from the outside in, from the physical world to the mind of the reader.

~ Harley King

It is easy to believe we are each waves and forget we are also the ocean.

~ Jon J. Muth

The love of nature is religion, and that religion is poetry; these three things are one thing. This is the unspoken creed of haiku poets.

~ R.h. Blyth

Soldiers falling fastBattle of white and scarletBlossoms on the ground

~ David Kudler

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.

~ R.h. Blyth

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.

~ R.h. Blyth

Absence of problems   does not lead to happiness.     Dealing with them does.

~ J. Benson