Famous quotes containing the words haiku and/or poets:
“The haiku lets meaning float; the aphorism pins it down.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot understand; indeed, admire that which has no meaning or principle.”
—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)