"My heart is in a world of water and crystal, My clothes are damp in this time of spring rains."

"The river is so wide, even the birds can’t cross it."

"Saddened by the times I weep at the flowers tormented by the partings even the birds startle my heart."

"I’m so poor I can’t even afford to be sick."

"How I long to lie down in some gully, alone and untrammeled! But I laugh at myself: an old madman growing older, growing madder."