When composing a verse let there not be a hair's breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy.

A flute with no holes is not a flute.

An autumn night - don’t think your life didn’t matter.

Come, butterfly It's late- We've miles to go together.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.

Learn about a pine tree from a pine tree, and about a bamboo plant from a bamboo plant.

Twilight whippoorwill... Whistle on, sweet deepener Of dark loneliness