Saijiki Haiku Quotes & Sayings

God is light. God is life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The most difficult step in the study of language is the first step. — Leonard Bloomfield

As much as I don't want to admit it, my fans are the only ones that can hurt my feelings when they're not pleased with what I'm presenting. I want it to be perfect for them. I want them to have a different sense of pride in my music. — Wale

Pain is a horribly wonderful gift. — Bryant McGill

All knowledge is of itself of some value. There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable that I would not rather know it than not. — Samuel Johnson

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds. — Henry Moore

Architects are mostly self-centered and their buildings express their ego. [They are] not social buildings to make it more comfortable for people - to make life better for people. The cities have to be designed so people can get together and talk with one another. — Jacque Fresco

As the years progress one increasingly realises the importance of friendship and human solidarity. And if a 90-year-old may offer some unsolicited advice on this occasion, it would be that you, irrespective of your age, should place human solidarity, the concern for the other, at the centre of the values by which you live. — Nelson Mandela

So when I go home, sometimes, even when I had an amazing game, I always think about what I missed. — Thierry Henry

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

And I thank you for bringing me here For showing me home For singing these tears Finally I've found that I belong here. — Martin L. Gore

Obama's global drone assassination campaign, a remarkable innovation in global terrorism, exhibits the same patterns. By most accounts, it is generating terrorists more rapidly than it is murdering those suspected of someday intending to harm us - an impressive contribution by a constitutional lawyer on the eight hundredth anniversary of Magna Carta, which established the basis for the principle of presumption of innocence that is the foundation of civilized law. — Noam Chomsky