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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Regarding R. H. Blyth Two men who may be called pillars of the Western haiku movement, Harold G. Henderson and 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
If all men lead mechanical, unpoetical lives, this is the real nihilism, the real undoing of the world.
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.
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
Regarding R. H. Blyth For translations, the best books are still those by R. H. Blyth....
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