The lamp once out
Cool stars enter
The window frame.
~ Natsume Soseki
from Zen Haiku: Poems and Letters of Natsume Soseki, by Natsume Soseki
Translated by Soiku Shigematsu
The wine of life is oozing drop by drop,
The leaves of life are falling one by one.
~ Omar Khayyam
.
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