Harley King Quotes
Harley King Quotes
Reading haiku is as much an art as writing it. The reader needs to pause and listen to the silences, to feel the spaces between the words, and to journey into the depths of many multi-colored worlds.
2504 I write because I have to write; but I also write because there’s somebody out there, hopefully, who will read it.
2939 What’s the use of writing poetry for your peers? I don’t think I should sell my poetry to other poets. If that’s who my audience is, I’m dead, I’m not going to make any money.
4543 Writing poetry is about learning to pare down the poem to the most essential words. Every word used has to be crucial to the poem.
2586 Memory is a sly devil that pretends to wear the cloak of truth, but deceives us both in our youth and our age.
2198 I feel the healing
hands of God
touch my heart
and kiss my soul.
4098 God steals my soul.
3837 Sometimes that
which we fear
strengthens our
spirit and gives
us a splash
of hope.
1120 Sometimes memory is the only gift we give ourselves and the only hope we have of finding our way home.
2646 We fear what we most desire.
2496 Reading haiku is like viewing a photograph or a painting. A haiku is a moment of time, isolated, and held up for viewing.
1036 Haiku does not express emotion from the inside out by displaying the mind of a character. Haiku builds the emotional thrust, makes the artistic statement from the outside in, from the physical world to the mind of the reader.
4615 May your heart be lighter today.
3022 I climb aboard my tricycle and pedal my heart to the stars.
2609 May our hearts find hope in our touch.
2147 One must give himself completely to his art and not hold back. Throw caution to the wind. Embrace the muse. Make love to your art.
1847 Over time our tears will help heal the pain and soothe the hurt.
2149 May your dreams be larger than mountains and may you have the courage to scale their summits.
1986 May your dreams be gifts from the gods and may you open them with excitement and pleasure.
2352 Nothing stays the same and nothing changes. What is old today will be new tomorrow. What is new today will be forgotten tomorrow.
1396 God is taking a nap within my soul. I ponder whether to wake Him or not.
4748 Too often our visions of the future
are dull and impotent
like a hammer beating the water.
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