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.
Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
Ballet in the air... Twin butterflies until, twice white They Meet, they mate
Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
Old pond, frog jumps in - plop.
There came a day when the clouds drifting along with the wind aroused a wanderlust in me, and I set off on a journey to roam along the seashores