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Regarding R. H. Blyth: Blyth's four volume Haiku became especially popular at this time [1950's] because his translations were based on the assumption that the haiku was the poetic expression of Zen. Not surprisingly, his books attracted the attention of the Beat school, most notably writers such as Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder and Jack Kerouac, all of whom had a prior interest in Zen.

Reginald Horace Blyth's Popular Quotes

I myself think that to have a cat is more important than to have a Bible.

- Reginald Horace Blyth

Think of Zen, of the Void, of Good and Evil and you are bound hand and foot. Think only and entirely and completely of what you are doing at the mome…

- Reginald Horace Blyth

What is essential is not the answer but the questions; the answers indeed are the death of the life that is in the questions.

- Reginald Horace Blyth

There is a Hindu myth about the Self or God of the universe who sees life as a form of play. But since the Self is what there is and all that there i…

- Reginald Horace Blyth

The object of our lives is to look at, listen to, touch, taste things. Without them, - these sticks, stones, feathers, shells, - there is no Deity.

- Reginald Horace Blyth

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…

- Reginald Horace Blyth

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

- Reginald Horace Blyth

A thief running away like mad from a ferocious watch-dog may be a splendid example of Zen.

- Reginald Horace Blyth

The establishment of inner harmony is to be attained neither in the past nor in the future, but where the past and future meet, which is the now. Whe…

- Reginald Horace Blyth