Cat Haiku Quotes & Sayings

The waterwheel accepts water and turns and gives it away, weeping. — Rumi

I married a man who was as much a part of me as my own soul. — C.J. English

So Spring comes merry towards me here, but earns
No answering smile from me, whose life is twin'd
With the dead boughs that winter still must bind,
And whom today the Spring no more concerns.
Behold, this crocus is a withering flame;
This snowdrop, snow; this apple-blossom's part
To breed the fruit that breeds the serpent's art.
Nay, for these Spring-flowers, turn thy face from them,
Nor stay till on the year's last lily-stem
The white cup shrivels round the golden heart. — Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Why so scrawny, cat?
Starving for fat fish or mice ...
Or backyard love? — Matsuo Basho

A Dear John haiku:

This isn't working.
I hope we can still be friends.
Please don't kill my cat. — Tom Dheere

You know, that was pretty great what you did earlier."

"What was that?" he asked as he shifted over me.

"Just the way you followed me, no questions asked."

"Always," he said, smiling at me. "So... about that kiss?"

"Yeah," I sighed, taking hold of his tie and easing him down to me. "I think I can manage that. — Mary Calmes

Suddenly the look in Norah's eyes changed. The nervous air she had walked in with, lifted from her face. Her eyes closed slightly and then opened wide, revealing pools of chocolate confidence. The change in her facial expression forced me to take a breath. How could you not love a creature like this - Angel by day, vixen by night. — Angela Richardson

To such an one we speak as those who are like us have spoken to us, and have so become our comfort in the wilderness of this life. — Arthur Schopenhauer

I hope that Requiem is better than Pi. I hope that Pi is better than my student films, and I'm hoping that I'm getting better as I get older. — Darren Aronofsky

I am Bourbon as a matter of honour , royalist according to reason and conviction, and republican by taste and character . — Francois-Rene De Chateaubriand

Amorous cat, alas
You too must yowl with your love...
or even worse, without! — Basho Matsuo