"It is not merely the brevity by which……" — 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 which it reveals a whole world of experience. It is not only in its remarkable use of the season word, by which it gives us a feeling of a quarter of the year; nor its faint all-pervading humour. Its peculiar quality is its self-effacing, self-annihilative nature, by which it enables us, more than any other form of literature, to grasp the thing-in-itself."
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Reginald Horace Blyth
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I myself think that to have a cat is more important than to have a Bible.
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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…
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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…
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The object of our lives is to look at, listen to, touch, taste things. Without them, - these sticks, stones,…
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We walk, and our religion is shown even to the dullest and most insensitive person in how we walk. Or…
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