quotations about tea
Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
Essay on Tea
Tea is tasty and contains healthy bioactives, but whether it's in brewed or extract form, it can't cancel out other bad habits in our diets.
EMMA BECKETT
"To Tea or Not to Tea?", Broadsheet, May 30, 2017
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
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
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