All Reginald Horace Blyth Quotes
- There is no greater difference between men than between grateful and ungrateful people. Difference
- I myself think that to have a cat is more important than to have a Bible. 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,… Acceptance
- 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,… All
- Mud is the most poetical thing in the world. Earth
- A haiku is the expression of a temporary enlightenment, in which we see into the life of things. Enlightenment
- 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… Abundantly
- If all men lead mechanical, unpoetical lives, this is the real nihilism, the real undoing of the world. All
- 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. Creed
- 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… All
- The object of our lives is to look at, listen to, touch, taste things. Without them, - these sticks, stones, feathers, shells, - there is… Chaos
- 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,… 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… All
- Regarding R. H. Blyth: For translations, the best books are still those by R. H. Blyth. . . . Best
- 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… All
- 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… Blyth
- Nothing divides one so much as thought. Divides
- Zen is the unsymbolization of the world. Funny
- What is essential is not the answer but the questions; the answers indeed are the death of the life that is in the questions. Answer
- Zen is the game of insight, the game of discovering who you are beneath the social masks. Beneath
- Zen is mind-less activity, that is, Mind-ful activity, and it may often be advisable to emphasize the mind, and say, Take care of the thoughts… Action
- Or, to express this in another way, suggested to me by Professor Suzuki, in connection with seeing into our own nature, poetry is the something… Another Way
- There is a Hindu myth about the Self or God of the universe who sees life as (play). But since the Self is what there… All