Backgrounds Quote by Reginald Horace Blyth

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…

— Reginald Horace Blyth

Or, to express this in another way, suggested to me by Professor Suzuki, in connection with seeing into our own nature, poetry is the…

— Reginald Horace Blyth

Zen is the unsymbolization of the world.

— Reginald Horace Blyth

These are some of the characteristics of the state of mind which the creation and appreciation of haiku demand: Selflessness, Loneliness, Grateful Acceptance, Wordlessness,…

— Reginald Horace Blyth

It is not merely the brevity by which the haiku isolates a particular group of phenomena from all the rest; nor its suggestiveness, through…

— Reginald Horace Blyth

A haiku is the expression of a temporary enlightenment, in which we see into the life of things.

— Reginald Horace Blyth

There is nothing intrinsically more beautiful or poetical about the moon than about a dunghill; if anything, the contrary, for the latter is full…

— Reginald Horace Blyth

We that change, hate change. And we that pass, love what abides. Ashes, darkness, dust.

— Reginald Horace Blyth

I myself think that to have a cat is more important than to have a Bible.

— Reginald Horace Blyth

The love of nature is religion, and that religion is poetry; these three things are one thing. This is the unspoken creed of haiku…

— Reginald Horace Blyth

The importance and unimportance of the self cannot be exaggerated.

— Reginald Horace Blyth

There is a Hindu myth about the Self or God of the universe who sees life as (play). But since the Self is what…

— Reginald Horace Blyth