Famous quotes containing the words japanese and/or haiku:
“In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.... The Japanese people are ... simply a mode of style, an exquisite fancy of art.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“The haiku lets meaning float; the aphorism pins it down.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)