Harley King

May your dreams be gifts from the gods and may you open them with excitement and pleasure.

May your dreams be larger than mountains and may you have the courage to scale their summits.

We fear what we most desire.

If I woke up one morning and realized that all I ever was going to be was a business man, I'd probably die. All my dreams would be shattered. Early in life I had many dreams. I dreamed of being a great basketball star. I dreamed of being a preacher. I dreamed of saving the world from war and racism. And I dreamed of being a great poet. Today, I dream only of writing.

Reading haiku is like viewing a photograph or a painting. A haiku is a moment of time, isolated, and held up for viewing.

What__ the use of writing poetry for your peers? I don__ think I should sell my poetry to other poets. If that__ who my audience is, I__ dead, I__ not going to make any money.

So much is buried in our lives that we forget what we have learned.

Knowing when and how to change course is important to success. Self-doubt is a lighthouse that will keep you from running aground. Don't become shipwrecked on the rocks of time. Be willing to rethink your decisions and change course.

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.

Too much has been given and too much has been lost.

The path to success is not a straight line.

Service to others in their time of need is a privilege and an honor.

Hope is a rainbow of thought.

Our flesh is a gift of laughter.

Hope is a gift. Use it wisely.

Sometimes memory is the only gift we give ourselves and the only hope we have of finding our way home.

What I really want is to be recognized as a writer; that someday, my poetry _ this is an interesting paradox _ would be taught in English classes; for my name, along with my poetry, to exist 500 years from now.

I have learned to have pride in what I do.