“My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.”

“There's a place beyond words where experience first occurs to which I always want to return. I suspect that whenever I articulate my thoughts or translate my impulses into words, I am betraying the real thoughts and impulses which remain hidden.”

“Through the lack of attaching myself to words, my thoughts remain nebulous most of the time. They sketch vague, pleasant shapes and then are swallowed up; I forget them almost immediately.”

“A man without words is a man without thought.”

“So I find words I never thought to speak

In streets I never thought I should revisit

When I left my body on a distant shore.”

“Behind your image, below your words, above your thoughts, the silence of another world waits.”

“And I’ll go on erasing the faulty words I put in my whole, even if my whole is left without words.”

“I never go back on my word! That's my nindo, my ninja way!”

“Theirs, too, is the word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.”

“I never hear the word “escape”
Without a quicker blood,
A sudden expectation,
A flying attitude.I never hear of prisons broad
By soldiers battered down,
But I tug childish at my bars,—
Only to fail again!”