A haiku is the expression of a temporary enlightenment, in which we see into the life of things..

There is no greater difference between men than between grateful and ungrateful people..

Zen is the unsymbolization of the world..

These are some of the characteristics of the state of mind which the creation and appreciation of haiku demand: Selflessness, Loneliness, Grateful Ac….

It is not merely the brevity by which the haiku isolates a particular group of phenomena from all the rest; nor its suggestiveness, through which it ….

Regarding R. H. Blyth: The first book in English based on the saijiki is R. H. Blyth's Haiku, published in four volumes from 1949 to 1952. After the ….

Regarding R. H. Blyth: Two men who may be called pillars of the Western haiku movement, Harold G. Henderson and R. H. Blyth. . . ..

Nothing divides one so much as thought..

We that change, hate change. And we that pass, love what abides. Ashes, darkness, dust..

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..

If all men lead mechanical, unpoetical lives, this is the real nihilism, the real undoing of the world..

Zen is poetry; poetry is Zen..

What is Zen? Zen is looking at things with the eye of God, that is, becoming the thing's eyes so that it looks at itself with our eyes..

Perfect does not mean perfect actions in a perfect world, bur appropriate actions in an imperfect one..