Musings from Stray Birds
10: Sorrow is hushed into peace in my heart like the evening among the silent trees.
18: What you are you do not see, what you see is your shadow.
23:
We, the rustling leaves, have a voice that answers the storms, but who are you so silent?"
"I am a mere flower."
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33:
Life finds its wealth by the claims of the world, and its worth by the claims of love.
37:
I cannot tell why this heart languishes in silence.
It is for small needs it never asks, or knows or remembers.
42:
You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.
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43:
But Man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.
84:
In death the many becomes one; in life the one becomes many.
87:
This longing is for the one who is felt in the dark, but not seen in the day.
88:
You are the big drop of dew under the lotus leaf, I am the smaller one on its upper side," said the dewdrop to the lake.
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109:
I cast my own shadow upon my path, because I have a lamp that has not been lighted.
114:
The road is lonely in its crowd for it is not loved.
124:
In the moon thou sendest thy love letters to me," said the night to the sun. "I leave my answers in tears upon the grass."
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131:
I hear some rustle of things behind my sadness of heart,—I cannot see them
148:
Gaps are left in life through which comes the sad music of death.
167:
The world has kissed my soul with its pain, asking for its return in songs.
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223:
Life has become richer by the love that has been lost.
234:
The moon has her light all over the sky, her dark spots to herself.
263:
This sadness of my soul is her bride's veil.
It waits to be lifted in the night.
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273:
Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence.
316:
Let me live truly, my Lord, so that death to me become true.
326:
Let this be my last word, that I trust in thy love.
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