"Mud is the most poetical thing in the…" — Reginald Horace Blyth

"Mud is the most poetical thing in the world."

— Reginald Horace Blyth

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23 Quotes by Reginald Horace Blyth

Reginald Horace Blyth has 23 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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,…
Thus we see that the all important thing is not killing or giving life, drinking or not drinking, living in…
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…
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…
It is not merely the brevity by which the haiku isolates a particular group of phenomena from all the rest;…
The object of our lives is to look at, listen to, touch, taste things. Without them, - these sticks, stones,…
We walk, and our religion is shown even to the dullest and most insensitive person in how we walk. Or…
Regarding R. H. Blyth: Blyth's four volume Haiku became especially popular at this time [1950's] because his translations were based…

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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and… — Neil Armstrong
Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for… — Neil Armstrong
I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth. — Neil Armstrong
It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much… — Neil Armstrong
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on… — Margaret Atwood
We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know. — Wystan Hugh Auden
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering. — Saint Augustine
What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat. — Marcus Aurelius
Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. — Richard Bach
Carbon dioxide is natural. It is not harmful. It is part of Earth's life cycle. — Michele Bachmann

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