A haiku is the expression of a temporary enlightenment, in which we see into the life of things.
More Quotes from 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.Reginald Horace Blyth
The importance and unimportance of the self cannot be exaggerated.
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 something that we see, but the seeing and the something are one without the seeing there is no something, no something, no seeing. There is neither discovery nor creation only the perfect, indivisible experience.
Reginald Horace Blyth
Regarding R. H. Blyth For translations, the best books are still those by R. H. Blyth....
Reginald Horace Blyth
Thus we see that the all important thing is not killing or giving life, drinking or not drinking, living in the town or the country, being unlucky or lucky, winning or losing. It is how we win, how we lose, how we live or die, finally, how we choose.
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 to poetry for safety anyway.
Reginald Horace Blyth
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