Quotes by Reginald Horace Blyth

Reginald Horace Blyth

A haiku is the expression of a temporary enlightenment, in which we see into the life of things.

Enlightenment

Expression

Life

A thief running away like mad from a ferocious watch-dog may be a splendid example of Zen.

Dog

Mad

Running

Any enlightenment which requires to be authenticated, certified, recognized, congratulated, is (as yet) a false, or at least incomplete one.

Enlightenment

Incomplete

I myself think that to have a cat is more important than to have a Bible.

Cat

Important

Thinking

If all men lead mechanical, unpoetical lives, this is the real nihilism, the real undoing of the world.

Life

Men

Real

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.

Art

Nature

Self

Mud is the most poetical thing in the world.

Earth

Nature

World

Nothing divides one so much as thought.

Divides

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.

Discovery

Nature

Perfect

Perfect does not mean perfect actions in a perfect world, bur appropriate actions in an imperfect one.

Doe

Mean

Perfect

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Appreciation

Art

Beautiful

Becoming

Book

Care

Cat

Country

Darkness

Discovery

Divides

Doe

Dog

Done

Dream

Drinking

Dust

Earth

Energy

Enlightenment

Essentials

Exaggerated

Expression

Eye

Fall

Feet

Firsts

Games

Gratitude

Hands

Hate

Importance

Important

Incomplete

Life

Loneliness

Looks

Love

Mad

Mask

May

Mean

Men

Mind

Moon

Nature

Night

Often Is

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Quotes by Reginald Horace Blyth

Reginald Horace Blyth

A haiku is the expression of a temporary enlightenment, in which we see into the life of things.

A thief running away like mad from a ferocious watch-dog may be a splendid example of Zen.

Any enlightenment which requires to be authenticated, certified, recognized, congratulated, is (as yet) a false, or at least incomplete one.

I myself think that to have a cat is more important than to have a Bible.

If all men lead mechanical, unpoetical lives, this is the real nihilism, the real undoing of the world.

Mud is the most poetical thing in the world.

Nothing divides one so much as thought.

Perfect does not mean perfect actions in a perfect world, bur appropriate actions in an imperfect one.

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