William Wordsworth on poetry: “It’s object is truth … carried alive into the heart by passion: truth which is its own testimony.”
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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 05/23/25
From R.H. Blyth: “Thus we see that love of all living creatures which springs up naturally in our hearts, unless thwarted by instruction, custom, or self-love, is no more and no less than our Buddha-nature manifesting itself. Further, love, like knight errantry, equalizes all things, and this equality of all things, the absolute worth andContinue reading “Quote of the day 05/23/25”
Quote of the day 05/22/25
From R.H. Blyth: “This is the true attitude of religion, of Zen, of poetry, towards everything, and especially towards animals: to ask nothing from them, to give them all the freedom and happiness consistent with our own existence.”
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 05/13/25
From Kikaku: The beggar! He has heaven and earth For his summer clothes.
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!
Quote of the day 05/04/25
From Walt Whitman: I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.
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