haiku

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an epigrammatic Japanese verse form of three short lines

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The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of. Matsuo Bashō

He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master. Matsuo Bashō

To denounce Hearn is the same thing as a denunciation of Japan. Lafcadio Hearn was as Japanese as haiku. Lafcadio Hearn

We are much better at writing code than haiku. Matt Mullenweg

Architecture is a discipline that takes time and patience. If one spends enough years writing complex novels one might be able, someday, to construct a respectable haiku. Thom Mayne

Dreams like a podcast, Downloading truth in my ears. They tell me cool stuff." "Apollo?" I guess, because I figured nobody else could make a haiku that bad. He put his finger to his lips. "I'm incognito. Call me Fred." "A god named Fred? Rick Riordan

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