‎I was satisfied with haiku until I met you, jar of octopus, cuckoo's cry, 5-7-5, but now I want a russian novel, a 50-page description of you sleeping, another 75 of what you think staring at your window.

Dean Young
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Yoko Ono, a Japanese artist, said, ‎I was satisfied with haiku until I met you, jar of octopus, cuckoo's cry, 5-7-5, but now I want a russian novel, a 50-page description of you sleeping, another 75 of what you think staring at your window.� This particular quote is about how she changed her creative process because of how the person she was writing to influenced her creativity. She wanted to express herself in a different way, but once she started writing to John Lennon she found herself changing the form of her writing to become more personal and inspired by him.

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