Famous quotes containing the words haiku and/or poets:
“The haiku lets meaning float; the aphorism pins it down.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“You know what? Poets are being pursued by the philosophers today out of the poverty of philosophy. God damn it, you might think a man had no business to be writing, to be a poet unless some philosophic stinker gave him permission.”
—William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)