If it is the greatest truth that you seek, the plants can direct you.

Truth is a torch, but a huge one, and so it is only with blinking eyes what we all of us try to get past it, in actual terror of being burnt.

What makes poetry? A full heart, brimful of one noble passion.

Do you want to live happily? Travel with two bags, one for giving, the other for receiving.

To live within limits. To want one thing. Or a few things very much and love them dearly. Cling to them, survey them from every angle. Become one with them - that is what makes the poet, the artist, the human being.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

Say what we may of the inadequacy of translation, yet the work is and will always be one of the weightiest and worthiest undertakings in the general concerns of the world.