Reginald Horace Blyth Quotes on Nature (3 Quotes)

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 reveals a whole world of experience. It is not only in its remarkable use of the season word, by which it gives us a feeling of a quarter of the year nor its faint all-pervading humour. Its peculiar quality is its self-effacing, self-annihilative nature, by which it enables us, more than any other form of literature, to grasp the thing-in-itself.

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.

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.