1. Heavy rain. Motionless car. Me inside. The world in sorrow.
2. Why do leaves commit suicide in flocks when they see winter coming?
But they all marry when winter arrives?
3. Love's map is the entire sky. Separation's map is all of life.
4. You who have not seen my blood— is that why you cannot understand my poetry?
5. The foam that rises when you push a beer mug— it holds as much melancholy as habit.
6. Does rice then smile with gleaming white teeth looking at the starving?
7. That madman's love hung with the clothesline drying women's undergarments.
8. Hearing the poet read his own verse, the mosquitoes took pity and bit him at will.
9. Those imprisoned by some belief— don't tell them stories of light if you don't want to be murdered.
10. When the eagle sleeps, its talons are still sharp.
11. Come, let's go on pilgrimage. Come, let's wander through our own hearts.
12. One who has nothing to do— why should he give you time?
His unemployed time...is for celebration in his own way.
13. Who gets caught in the moon's net? One who never found love? Or one who found love and lost it?
14. Having lost yourself there, what are you searching for here?
15. When does death occur? When lifespan ends? Or when life ends?
16. When the beloved dies, the woman is born.
17. The one surrounded by laughter— tell me, why does he cry the most?
18. Learning to steal skillfully, the fly rises in caste to become a bee.
19. All the earth's secret words— do roots betray them to the leaves?
20. Does man grow up enduring such hardship only to suffer more?