Incomparable Verse Valley

-Muso Soseki (c. 13th-14th century)

(based on version by W. S. Merwin)

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