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)

    [The] attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and ... often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.
    Václav Havel (b. 1936)

    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)