Zen is the unsymbolization of the world.

What is Zen? Zen is looking at things with the eye of God, that is, becoming the thing's eyes so that it looks at itself with our eyes.

Zen is poetry; poetry is Zen.

The object of our lives is to look at, listen to, touch, taste things. Without them, - these sticks, stones, feathers, shells, - there is no Deity.

I myself think that to have a cat is more important than to have a Bible.

Mud is the most poetical thing in the world.

Regarding R. H. Blyth: For translations, the best books are still those by R. H. Blyth. . . .