The sounds of the stream
     splash out
          the Buddha’s sermon
Don’t say
     that the deepest meaning
          comes only from one’s mouth
Day and night
     eighty thousand poems
          arise one after the other
and in fact
     not a single word
          has ever been spoken

                         Muso Soseki (1275-1351)
                         Translated by W.S. Merwin
                         and Soiku Shigematsu