From Rumi: “If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”
Tag Archives: poetry
Quote of the day 02/13/25
From Rumi: “Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
Quote of the day 02/11/25
From Rumi: “Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
Quote of the day 01/31/25
From Keats: “A poet is the most unpoetical thing in existence-because he has no identity. The setting sun will always set me to rights, and if a sparrow comes before my window, I take part in its existence and pick about the gravel.”
Quote of the day 01/30/25
From William Blake: “The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity too great for the eye of man.”
Quote of the day 01/28/25
From Unmon: “Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with all thy might.”
Quote of the day 01/22/25
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.”
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.”
Quote of the day 01/09/25
From William Blake: “Mercy is the golden chain by which society is bound together.”
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