Haiku Literature Award

Famous quotes containing the words haiku, literature and/or award:

“The haiku lets meaning float; the aphorism pins it down.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“Despite your best efforts, you could not invent a better police force for literature than criticism and the author’s own conscience.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)

“The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.”
—Robert Graves (1895–1985)