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Regarding R. H. Blyth: For translations, the best books are still those by R. H. Blyth. . . .

Regarding R. H. Blyth: For translations, the best books are still those by R. H. Blyth. . . .

Reginald Horace Blyth
Book, Stills, Translations

Mud is the most poetical thing in the world.

Reginald Horace Blyth
Nature, World, Earth
Reginald Horace Blyth (1984). “A History of Haiku: From the beginnings up to Issa”

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

Reginald Horace Blyth
Hate, Dust, Darkness
Reginald Horace Blyth, British Haiku Society (1994). “The genius of Haiku: readings from R.H. Blyth on poetry, life, and Zen”

Zen is mind-less activity, that is, Mind-ful activity, and it may often be advisable to emphasize the mind, and say, Take care of the thoughts and the actions will take care of themselves.

Reginald Horace Blyth
Often Is, Mind, Care
Reginald Horace Blyth (1948). “Zen in English literature and oriental classics”

Or, to express this in another way, suggested to me by Professor Suzuki, in connection with seeing into our own nature, poetry is the something that we see, but the seeing and the something are one; without the seeing there is no something, no something, no seeing. There is neither discovery nor creation: only the perfect, indivisible experience.

Reginald Horace Blyth
Nature, Discovery, Perfect

There is nothing intrinsically more beautiful or poetical about the moon than about a dunghill; if anything, the contrary, for the latter is full of life and warmth and energy.

Reginald Horace Blyth
Beautiful, Moon, Energy
Reginald Horace Blyth (1960). “Zen and Zen Classics”

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 first, background volume, the remaining three consist of a collection of Japanese haiku with translations, all organized by season, and within the seasons by traditional categories and about three hundred seasonal topics.

Reginald Horace Blyth
Book, Topics, Firsts

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

Reginald Horace Blyth
Men, Two, May

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
Book, School, Expression

Zen is poetry; poetry is Zen.

Reginald Horace Blyth
Poetry Is

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