"Until now I had mistaken the "Enlightenment” of Zen: I was wrong to think it meant being able to die serenely under a…"

"Take your materials from what is around you—if you see a dandelion, write about it; if it’s misty, write about the mi…"

"柿くへば 鐘が鳴るなり 法隆寺 kaki kueba kane ga naru nari Hōryūji"

"Tell them I was a persimmon eater who liked haiku"

"... the sparrow’s chirp, the crow’s caw, the willow’s green, the cherry blossom’s pink, are the truth of the Zen mast…"

"In this jumbled world of ten thousand things, there are things that are beautiful, things that are ugly, and things t…"

"In his later, bedridden years his observations were limited almost entirely to his sickroom and the small garden that…"

"Imitar equivale a moverse i fatigarse en el wagón de un ferrocarril: nos imajinamos realizar mucho i no hacemos más q…"

"El hombre anda con pasos cortos en la infancia i en la vejez."

"la forma da el mérito; n'olvidemos que sólo por la forma, el carbono se llama unas veces carbón i otras veces diamante"