Whatever it is, / I cannot understand it, / although gratitude / stubbornly overcomes me / until I'm reduced to tears.

Every single thing changes and is changing always in this world. Yet with the same light the moon goes on shining.

This place of mine never is entered by humans come for conversation, only by the mute moon's light shafts that slip in between the trees.

I'd like to divide myself in order to see, among these mountains, each and every flower of every cherry tree.

The cherries' only fault: the crowds that gather when they bloom

Now seen...now gone, The butterfly flits in and out Through fence-hung flowers; But a life lived so close to them I envy...though it's here and gone.

Tightly held by rocks Through winter, the ice today Begins to come undone: A way-seeker also is the water, Melting, murmuring from the moss.

Limitations gone: Since my mind fixed on the moon, Clarity and serenity Make something for which There's no end in sight.

I'd like to dividemyself in order to see, among these mountains, each and every flowerof every cherry tree.

Limitations gone:Since my mind fixed on the moon, Clarity and serenityMake something for whichThere's no end in sight.

Tightly held by rocksThrough winter, the ice todayBegins to come undone:A way-seeker also is the water, Melting, murmuring from the moss.

I enjoy every climb - maybe it's because it's a literal dance between life and death.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

It's a lot of people that's tried to stop my grind, there's been a lot of hate, but even more love.

Try to catch a trout and experience the glorious feeling of letting it go and seeing it swimming away.

Storyless is not abstract. Two dancers on the stage are enough material for a story; for me, they are already a story in themselves

To secure respect to a neutral flag requires a naval force organized and ready to vindicate it from insult or aggression.

So Nature deals with us, and takes away Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest.

Once I put that wig on, I didn't say an intelligent thing for four months. My voice went up. I walked differently. I'd ask incredibly stupid questions.

I'd rather have my kid smoking pot than drinking.

Whether you like it or not the millions are here, and here they will remain. If you do not lift them up, they will pull you down... Education must not simply teach work - it must teach life.