Reginald Horace Blyth Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

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

  Reginald Horace Blyth

  Life, Real, Men

  Reginald Horace Blyth (1960). “Zen and Zen Classics”

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

  Reginald Horace Blyth

  Life, Expression, Enlightenment

  Reginald Horace Blyth (1951). “Haiku: Eastern culture”

• 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

  Life, Fall, Night

  Reginald Horace Blyth (1995). “The genius of haiku: readings from R.H. Blyth on poetry, life, and Zen”

• 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

  Life, Country, Drinking

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