70 quotes found
“Reading haiku is like viewing a photograph or a painting. A haiku is a moment of time, isolated, and held up for viewing.”
“Make one person happy each day and in forty years you will have made 14 600 human beings happy for a little time at least.”
“When you hear hoofbeats think of horses before zebras.”
“If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape it would be the shape of a boomerang.”
“The time I spent thinking about how I was better than somebody else or worrying about somebody else's attitude was time I could put to better use.”
“Life often is a bucket of water sitting on a farmer’s porch. Our choice is in the drinking.”
“What I really want is to be recognized as a writer; that someday, my poetry — this is an interesting paradox — would be taught in English classes; for my name, along with my poetry, to exist 500 ye...”
“What’s the use of writing poetry for your peers? I don’t think I should sell my poetry to other poets. If that’s who my audience is, I’m dead, I’m not going to make any money.”
