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Reginald Horace Blyth has 23 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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There is no greater difference between men than between grateful and ungrateful people.
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I myself think that to have a cat is more important than to have a Bible.
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These are some of the characteristics of the state of mind which the creation and appreciation of haiku demand: Selflessness, Loneliness, Grateful…
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Thus we see that the all important thing is not killing or giving life, drinking or not drinking, living in the town…
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Mud is the most poetical thing in the world.
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A haiku is the expression of a temporary enlightenment, in which we see into the life of things.
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The sun shines, snow falls, mountains rise and valleys sink, night deepens and pales into day, but it is only very seldom…
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If all men lead mechanical, unpoetical lives, this is the real nihilism, the real undoing of the world.
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The love of nature is religion, and that religion is poetry; these three things are one thing. This is the unspoken creed…
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It is not merely the brevity by which the haiku isolates a particular group of phenomena from all the rest; nor its…
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The object of our lives is to look at, listen to, touch, taste things. Without them, - these sticks, stones, feathers, shells,…
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We walk, and our religion is shown even to the dullest and most insensitive person in how we walk. Or to put…
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If all men lead mechanical, unpoetical lives, this is the real nihilism, the real undoing of the world.
— Reginald Horace Blyth
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At bottom, no real object is unpoetical, if the poet knows how to use it properly.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating.
— Oscar Wilde
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A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence; because he has no identity he is continually informing and filling some…
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The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make,…
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