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”
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Quote of the day 05/31/25
From R.H. Blyth: “Zen says, Look within! Wordsworth says, Look without! but there is no more difference here than in the case of Self-Power and Other-Power. Self-Power is Other-Power, because Self is Other. Looking at the microcosm is looking at the macrocosm, for one without the other is meaningless.”
Quote of the day 05/19/25
From R.H. Blyth: “Does not the sun scorch to death, and floods drown the good and bad with equal lack of discrimination? Do not the lilies of the field choke one another to death in their wild struggle for existence? This is true enough, but after all, not so staggering as it appears. In ZenContinue reading “Quote of the day 05/19/25”
Quote of the day 05/18/25
From R.H. Blyth: “The willow bends for me, gives her pliancy to me. I yield my heart to the willow, I give up my life to it. The willow and I are one. There is no giving and receiving at all. Life appears there, in the form of a willow, here, in the form ofContinue reading “Quote of the day 05/18/25”
Quote of the day 05/17/25
From R.H. Blyth: “The important but usually overlooked part of Christ’s short sermon, is the words ‘how they grow.’ The point is not the beauty of the flower, not the beauty of a Bach fugue but, how it grows. How does it grow? Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Bach attempted the task of explaining howContinue reading “Quote of the day 05/17/25”
Quote of the day 05/16/25
From R.H. Blyth: “…what Roshi is urging us to lose is such things as self-respect, our immortal souls, our wish to live, our pleasure in life, and so on. Of course, we shall get them all back again, but changed out of all recognition.”
Quote of the day 05/14/25
From Patmore: To have nought Is to have all things without care or thought
Quote of the day 05/12/25
From R.H. Blyth: “What then is the function of poverty in life, reality, poetry? Poverty means the closest possible approximation of these three things which in our ordinary manner of living are separated.”
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”
Quote of the day 05/10/25
From Ryokan: You say my poems are poetry? They are not. Yet if you understand they are not,- Then you see the poetry of them!
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