TEA QUOTES V

quotations about tea

Drinking tea ... punctuates our day with precious and refreshing pauses, whether it is after a satisfying meal or when taking a much-needed break in our busy schedule.

MUTSUKO TOKUNAGA

New Tastes in Green Tea

Tags: Mutsuko Tokunaga


I focus
on beginnings
domestic trivia
lay in soap and
other household cleansers
toilet rolls, dishcloths, dusters
a pack of tea leaves
for my essential
early morning fix
important/unimportant details
to ease the rawness
of the big transition

VENIE HOLMGREN

The Tea House Poems


If you ask Zen people they will say tea is not something that you pour with unawareness and drink like any other drink. It is not a drink, it is meditation; it is prayer. So they listen to the kettle creating a melody, and in that listening they become more silent, more alert.

BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH

attributed, Tea: A Miscellany Steeped with Trivia, History and Recipes


We had a kettle; we let it leak:
Our not repairing made it worse.
We haven't had any tea for a week...
The bottom is out of the Universe.

RUDYARD KIPLING

The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling

Tags: Rudyard Kipling


Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Letters and Social Aims

Tags: Ralph Waldo Emerson