"The sun shines, snow falls, mountains rise and……" — Reginald Horace Blyth
"The sun shines, snow falls, mountains rise and valleys sink, night deepens and pales into day, but it is only very seldom that we attend to such things. . . . When we are grasping the inexpressible meaning of these things, this is life, this is living. To do this twenty-four hours a day is the Way of Haiku. It is having life more abundantly."
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Reginald Horace Blyth
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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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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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