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 function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.”
—Lionel Trilling (1905–1975)

“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)