Reginald Horace Blyth Quotes

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• There is no greater difference between men than between grateful and ungrateful people.
• I myself think that to have a cat is more important than to have a Bible.
• These are some of the characteristics of the state of mind which the creation and appreciation of haiku demand: Selflessness, Loneliness, Grateful Acceptance, Wordlessness, Non-intellectuality,…
• Thus we see that the all important thing is not killing or giving life, drinking or not drinking, living in the town or the country,…
• Mud is the most poetical thing in the world.
• A haiku is the expression of a temporary enlightenment, in which we see into the life of things.
• The sun shines, snow falls, mountains rise and valleys sink, night deepens and pales into day, but it is only very seldom that we attend…
• If all men lead mechanical, unpoetical lives, this is the real nihilism, the real undoing of the world.
• The love of nature is religion, and that religion is poetry; these three things are one thing. This is the unspoken creed of haiku poets.
• It is not merely the brevity by which the haiku isolates a particular group of phenomena from all the rest; nor its suggestiveness, through which…
• The object of our lives is to look at, listen to, touch, taste things. Without them, - these sticks, stones, feathers, shells, - there is…
• We walk, and our religion is shown even to the dullest and most insensitive person in how we walk. Or to put it more accurately,…
• Regarding R. H. Blyth: Blyth's four volume Haiku became especially popular at this time [1950's] because his translations were based on the assumption that the…
• Regarding R. H. Blyth: For translations, the best books are still those by R. H. Blyth. . . .
• Regarding R. H. Blyth: The first book in English based on the saijiki is R. H. Blyth's Haiku, published in four volumes from 1949 to…
• Regarding R. H. Blyth: Blyth is sometimes perilous, naturally, since he's a high-handed old poem himself, but he's also sublime - and who goes to…
• Nothing divides one so much as thought.
• Zen is the unsymbolization of the world.
• What is essential is not the answer but the questions; the answers indeed are the death of the life that is in the questions.
• Zen is the game of insight, the game of discovering who you are beneath the social masks.

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