Should I leave this burning house
of ceaseless thought
and taste the pure rain's
single truth
falling upon my skin?
~ Izumi Shikibu
from The Ink Dark Moon
translations by Jane Hirshfield and Mariko Aratani
art by kristine wyler
The wine of life is oozing drop by drop,
The leaves of life are falling one by one.
~ Omar Khayyam
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Happy are those who know:
Behind all words, the Unsayable stands;
And from that source alone, the Infinite
Crosses over to gladness, and us -
Free of our bridges
Built with the stone of distinctions;
So that always, within each delight,
We gaze at what is purely single and joined.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
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