1. The old man suddenly looks at the young woman and thinks, Has my spring truly come to an end!
2. The aging courtesan gives advice to young girls... that they should not lose their virginity untimely.
3. Why does even the butterfly go sit before the mirror? To be enchanted by its own colors?
4. Right before the exam the boy keeps opening the folds of his book burying his nose in it, breathing it in.
5. Those who object to unequal love, same love... are they that Creator who holds the key to the heart?
6. Which way exactly does the grasshopper want to go? What does it really want?
7. Ever since I fell in love with you vultures circle above my head.
8. Light enters even a thatched hut, if there's a way for it to come.
9. Even in a garden of roses sometimes the bee loses its way!
10. Don't hold me with such trembling hands; I'm not asking for freedom.
11. In me, absorption in you, in you, nakedness toward me.
12. Fleeing from everyone, the little bird takes shelter in the child's hands.
13. Behind water's veil among thousands of stones waiting and waiting for the hunter the fish grow old.
14. Before the sun rises both ascetic and thief get down to work.
15. Then is it true that on the waterfall hidden from sight no butterflies dance upon its surface?
16. Beyond your field of vision too thousands of birds fly... accept this truth.
17. The flower that blooms unseen by us, and falls too— is it not beautiful?
18. The blind young man every morning climbs to the rooftop to watch the sunrise.
19. The drowsy worker, the sleeping youth... the setting sun.
20. Neglected in the sun's light the moon's splendor... in the poet's notebook.