"The love of nature is religion, and that……" — 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 poets."
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Reginald Horace Blyth
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23 Quotes by Reginald Horace Blyth
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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,…
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Thus we see that the all important thing is not killing or giving life, drinking or not drinking, living in…
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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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It is not merely the brevity by which the haiku isolates a particular group of phenomena from all the rest;…
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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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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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A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the…
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As we were baptized, so we profess our belief. As we profess our belief, so also we offer praise. As…
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Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which…
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Empty-brained triflers who have never tried to think, who take their creed as they take their fashions, speak of atheism…
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No matter who you are, no matter what your color, creed, how you choose to pray or who you choose…
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If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we…
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The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed.
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I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me.
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The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.
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Red Letter Christians believe in the doctrines of the Apostle's Creed, are convinced that the Scriptures have been inspired by…
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He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.
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Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.
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