A Quote by Reginald Horace Blyth on acceptance, appreciation, courage, creation, freedom, humor, loneliness, love, mind, morality, and simplicity

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.