Reginald Horace Blyth quotes and words of wisdom

"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."
Found in the topic Unsorted.

"Art is frozen Zen"
Found in the topic Art.

"Thus we see that the all important thing is not killing or giving life, drinking or not drinking, living in the town or the country, being unlucky or lucky, winning or losing. It is how we win, how we lose, how we live or die, finally, how we choose."
Found in the topic Choice.

"If all men lead mechanical, unpoetical lives, this is the real nihilism, the real undoing of the world."
Found in the topic Life.

"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."
Found in the topic Humor.

Interesting Quotes

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.Douglas Adams - English humorist & science fiction novelist (1952 - 2001)

Turn on, tune in and drop out.Timothy Leary - US psychologist & promoter of mind-altering drugs (1920 - 1996)