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.

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

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

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

Zen is poetry; poetry is Zen.

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

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