Quotes by : R.H. Blyth

These are some of the characteristics of the state of mind which the creation and appreciation of haiku....

The importance and unimportance of the self cannot be exaggerated.

Nothing divides one so much as thought.

Thus we see that the all important thing is not killing or giving life, drinking or not drinking, living....

The love of nature is religion, and that religion is poetry; these three things are one thing. This is....

What is Zen? Zen means doing anything perfectly, making mistakes perfectly, being defeated perfectly,....

The sun shines, snow falls, mountains rise and valleys sink, night deepens and pales into day, but it....

The object of our lives is to look at, listen to, touch, taste things. Without them—these sticks, stones,....