J. Michael Straczynski

A story is a story is a story. The only difference is in the techniques you bring to bear. There are always limitations on what you can and can't do. But I enjoy that. Just like when you write a sonnet or haiku, there are rules you have to abide by. And to me, playing within the rules is the fun part. It keeps the brain fresh.

American Producer

Fumio Sasaki

Traditional paintings have few figures in them and value negative space. Japanese calligraphy and brush paintings are in black and white. Haiku is the shortest poem form in the world. These are a few examples of a minimalistic aesthetic in Japanese art and culture.

Author

Geoffrey Ward

Books provide context and allow you to think about things over time. Film is like writing haiku; there is an immense amount of pleasure in paring down and paring down. But it isn't the same.

American Historian

Yoko Ono

Performance art is going to be the future. Plays on Broadway are so restricted. But performance art is like haikus, just one line thing. And it's more casual but more interesting.

American Artist

Flula Borg

I am a musician who also does love to explore the world in many ways, so my approaching with my songs, videos, and haikus is: 'Make It Real.

German Musician

Jonas Mekas

Most of my videos consist of fragments, one or two minutes long. They are haikus or sketches. I have thousands.

Lithuanian Director

Richard Flanagan

I am an admirer of haiku, and I'm a great admirer of Japanese literature in general.

Australian Novelist

Misha Collins

I guess haiku is an inspiration for me. Everyday, simple moments.

American Actor

Jack Kerouac

It's hard to write haiku. I write long, silly Indian poems.

American Novelist

Biz Stone

American Businessman

Haikus have a deep connection with Japanese culture and often capture nature's beauty.

Cultural Tradition

Haiku poems express complex feelings and moments in a concise way.

Emotional Expression

Haikus traditionally include a 'kigo', a word that indicates the season.

Seasonal Reference

 experimenting with the political ramifications of a system like that. Someone put up all the Wikileaked cables from the State Department, along with software used to interpret them, including my favorite use ever of the Cablegate cables, which is a tool for detecting naturally occurring haiku in State Department prose.

Clay Shirky: How the...

 I just wrote tweets I just wrote haiku I followed traditional haiku patterns and sometimes I would try to make them more poetic but sometimes I would just talk about what was actually happening you don't have to stick to the form the five seven five syllables of haiku I expanded so this is a tweet I wrote on my trip to

Andrew Evans: Digital...

 and filled with vivid images. Compare her language to a haiku, the ancient Japanese poetic form that emphasizes bursts of brief intensity with just three lines of five, seven, and five syllables. The waters of poetry run wide and deep. Poetry has evolved over time, and perhaps now more than ever,

What makes a poem … a...

 lost exactly a week I got there and I found that the monastery in character was dangerously close to the English boarding schools where I spent so much time it wasn't just sitting on a wooden platform contemplating the moon and writing depthless haiku it was scrubbing

Pico Iyer: A Portable...

 One of the clearest places to find good metaphors is in poems. Take this haiku by the 18th-century Japanese poet Issa. "On a branch floating downriver, a cricket singing." The first way to meet a metaphor is just to see the world through its

The art of the metaphor...

 case you know it's it's a short it's a short narrative you know you can see the whole page right there and so trying to find something to say about black holes and a short amount of space is not very easy it's kind of like a haiku

What Makes Angry Birds...

 On some days, we would sit for hours in silence, both of us reading. And on other days, we would read together, we would read poetry. We started by reading haikus, hundreds of haikus, a deceptively simple masterpiece.

The healing power of...

 in their own voices. Now if you'll allow me, I would love to share a one-minute film that has proven to show that a 60-sec film can be as powerful as a haiku

Sheikha Al Mayassa:...

 his disciples and followers kept asking him, "What's the secret? How can you make haiku poems so beautiful so easily?" And toward the end, he said,

John Delaney: Wiring an...

 Now, that's a good printing job. A book cover is a distillation. It is a haiku,

Haiku

A type of short poem from Japan, with 17 syllables in three lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables.

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