Lucien Stryk. Encounter with Zen: writings on poetry and Zen, 1981. p. 66.
Japanese Death Poems. Compiled by Yoel Hoffmann. ISBN 978-0-8048-3179-6
The Paris Review interview (1982)
Context: My Zen master, because I’ve studied Zen for a long time, told me that every one (and all the stories weren’t written then) of the Mary Poppins stories is in essence a Zen story. And someone else, who is a bit of a Don Juan, told me that every one of the stories is a moment of tremendous sexual passion, because it begins with such tension and then it is reconciled and resolved in a way that is gloriously sensual. … A great friend of mine at the beginning of our friendship (he was himself a poet) said to me very defiantly, “I have to tell you that I loathe children’s books.” And I said to him, “Well, won’t you just read this just for my sake?” And he said grumpily, “Oh, very well, send it to me.” I did, and I got a letter back saying: “Why didn’t you tell me? Mary Poppins with her cool green core of sex has me enthralled forever.”
Japanese Death Poems. Compiled by Yoel Hoffmann. ISBN 978-0-8048-3179-6; Quoted in: Lawrence Winkler. Samurai Road. 2016. p. 25
“Who can measure the worth of a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo or Beethoven in dollars and cents?”
The Principles of Anarchism
Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid (1979)
“I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.”
Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
Me & Rumi (2004)
Zen: Dawn in the West (Garden City, NY: Anchor Books, 1980), p. 83.
“Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.”
Source: Eat, Pray, Love
