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Quote of the day 06/05/25

From R.H. Blyth: “…when we think about ourselves, we are deeply conscious of our physical pains and pleasure, but if we forget ourselves, the body too, becoming one with the mind, is hardly aware of its pain and pleasure, cold and heat. How much our happiness depends upon the condition of our minds, is shownContinue reading “Quote of the day 06/05/25”

Quote of the day 06/01/25

From R.H. Blyth: “I have already given my interpretation of what are called figures of speech and will now give a definition of imagination as the faculty was exercised by Wordsworth himself. It is the power by which we become so united, or better, by which we realise our original unity with persons, things, situations,Continue reading “Quote of the day 06/01/25”

Quote of the day 05/11/25

From R.H. Blyth: “Poetry is not iambic tetrameter or what not; it is reality conveyed to us in words, or rather through words, no, in spite of words, and when ‘we see into the life of things,’ we know that our life is reality, our life is poetry, and that these three are and alwaysContinue reading “Quote of the day 05/11/25”