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

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Reginald Horace Blyth

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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