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Reginald Horace Blyth Quotes: If all men lead mechanical, unpoetical lives, this is the real nihilism, the real undoing of the world.
         

If all men lead mechanical, unpoetical lives, this is the real nihilism, the real undoing of 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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I myself think that to have a cat is more important than to have a Bible.



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What is essential is not the answer but the questions; the answers indeed are the death of the life that is in the questions.



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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.



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.

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.



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Regarding R. H. Blyth: For translations, the best books are still those by R. H. Blyth. . . .





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