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.
More Quotes from Reginald Horace Blyth:
If all men lead mechanical, unpoetical lives, this is the real nihilism, the real undoing of the world.Reginald Horace Blyth
A haiku is the expression of a temporary enlightenment, in which we see into the life of things.
Reginald Horace Blyth
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.
Reginald Horace Blyth
The importance and unimportance of the self cannot be exaggerated.
Reginald Horace Blyth
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
Nothing divides one so much as thought.
Reginald Horace Blyth
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