From R.H. Blyth: “A haiku is not a poem, it is not literature; it is a hand beckoning, a door half-opened, a mirror wiped clean. It is a way of returning to nature, to our moon nature, our cherry blossom nature, our falling leaf nature, in short, to our Buddha nature.”
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Quote of the day 01/21/25
From R.H. Blyth: ‘These are some of the characteristics of the state of mind which the creation and appreciation of haiku demand: Selflessness, Loneliness, Grateful Acceptance, Wordlessness, Non-intellectuality, Contradictoriness, Humor, Freedom, Non-morality, Simplicity, Materiality, Love, and Courage.”
Quote of the day 01/15/25
From R.H. Blyth: “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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