1. Come! No one will touch you here! This place is cool, dark, farther even than the soul! Here memories lie heaped in piles; this is the refuge of all my wordlessness.
2. Mid-evening in winter. I carefully made tea and brought it, only to find you'd fallen asleep from exhaustion. ...I pulled the blanket up properly around you.
3. Birthdays are each a road— leading nowhere.
4. Beggar or king— whoever you may be, your sorrows touch none of those who share in your joys.
5. Which laughter feels good to laugh? The kind that meets laughter in return!
6. Why do you laugh like a victor while giving me that very pain which you knew I'd suffer when I came to you?
7. The poem I wrote in solitude, you read in solitude. Yet would you still say we never met?
8. Even the blind rush toward the source of light!
9. Birds fly away leaving no trace— save for one blue sky.
10. Looking at the dry leaf in my hand, I think: one day we too shall meet.
11. Even without hearing footsteps, the rose awakens surely, rival to the sun.
12. Though the sky can't be seen through rain's thick walls, you can be seen just fine.
13. I was sitting, dreaming. Suddenly, sleep... Death of all dreams!
14. The delicious meat near the coals— flies never settle there.
15. The old man went and sat on the bench. His soul warmed in sunlight. What's the point of quarreling with old age now?
16. Dry leaves fallen along the path sketch an unknown old woman's face.
17. In haste, only delays come. Trying to save time, only wastes more time.
18. When truth comes and strikes the eyes, though you close them, don't open your mouth.
19. That I read the newspaper daily and remain perfectly sane— isn't this success?
20. I cover my own laziness with life's laziness.