Crow With No Mouth Quotes

“that stone Buddha deserves all the
birdshit it gets
I wave my skinny arms like a tall
flower in the wind”
― Ikkyu, Crow With No Mouth

“it isn't that we're alone or not alone
whose voice do you want mine? yours?”
― Ikkyu, Crow With No Mouth

“I'd love to give you something
but what would help?”
― Ikkyu, Crow With No Mouth

“fucking flattery, success, money.
I just sit back and suck my thumb.”
― Ikkyu, Crow With No Mouth: Ikkyu, Fifteenth Century Zen Master

“we're lost where the mind can't find us
utterly lost”
― Ikkyu, Crow With No Mouth

“Hearing a crow with no mouth
Cry in the deep
Darkness of the night,
I feel a longing for
My father before he was born.”
― Ikkyu, Crow With No Mouth

“clouds very high look
not one word helped them get up there”
― Ikkyu, Crow With No Mouth

“don't wait for the man standing in the
snow
to cut off his arm help him now”
― Ikkyu, Crow With No Mouth

“born born everything is always born
thinking about it try not to”
― Ikkyu, Crow With No Mouth

“the wise know nothing at all
well maybe one song”
― Ikkyu, Crow With No Mouth: Ikkyu, Fifteenth Century Zen Master

“why is it all so beautiful this fake dream
this craziness why?”
― Ikkyu, Crow With No Mouth: Ikkyu, Fifteenth Century Zen Master

“I've burnt all the holy pages I used to carry
but poems flare in my heart”
― Ikkyu, Crow With No Mouth: Ikkyu, Fifteenth Century Zen Master

“pleasure pain are equal in a clear heart
no mountain hides the moon”
― Ikkyu, Crow With No Mouth: Ikkyu, Fifteenth Century Zen Master

“this boat is and is not
when it sinks both disappear”
― Ikkyu, Crow With No Mouth: Ikkyu, Fifteenth Century Zen Master

“don’t worry please please how many times do I have to say it
there’s no way not to be who you are and where.”
― Ikkyu, Crow With No Mouth: Ikkyu, Fifteenth Century Zen Master

“flowers are silent silence is silent the mind
is a silent flower the silent flower of the world opens”
― Ikkyu, Crow With No Mouth: Ikkyu, Fifteenth Century Zen Master

“I was like an old leafless tree until we met green buds burst and blossom

now that I have you I'll never forget what I owe you”
― Ikkyu, Crow With No Mouth: Ikkyu, Fifteenth Century Zen Master

“even before trees rocks I was nothing
when I'm dead nowhere I'll be nothing”
― Ikkyu, Crow With No Mouth: Ikkyu, Fifteenth Century Zen Master

“all the bad things I do will go up in smoke
and so will I”
― Ikkyu, Crow With No Mouth: Ikkyu, Fifteenth Century Zen Master

“sometimes all I am is dark emptiness
I can't hide in the sleeves of my own robes”
― Ikkyu, Crow With No Mouth: Ikkyu, Fifteenth Century Zen Master

“here I am simply trying to get into your head
you think you were born you die what a pity”
― Ikkyu, Crow With No Mouth: Ikkyu, Fifteenth Century Zen Master

“ten dumb years I wanted things to be different furious proud I still feel it”
― Ikkyu, Crow With No Mouth: Ikkyu, Fifteenth Century Zen Master

“for us no difference between reading eating singing
making love not one thing or the other”
― Ikkyu, Crow With No Mouth: Ikkyu, Fifteenth Century Zen Master

“cut off everything from everything stand here the soles of your feet the ground
your brain in the black nothing between”
― Ikkyu, Crow With No Mouth: Ikkyu, Fifteenth Century Zen Master

“father when I was a boy you left us now I forgive you”
― Ikkyu, Crow With No Mouth: Ikkyu, Fifteenth Century Zen Master

“even before trees rocks I was nothing
when I'm dead nowhere I'll be nothing

all the bad things I do will go up in
smoke
and so will I

if there's nowhere to rest at the end
how can I get lost on the way?”
― Ikkyu, Crow With No Mouth: Ikkyu, Fifteenth Century Zen Master

“no walls no roof no anything my house
doesn’t get wet doesn’t get blown down”
― Ikkyu, Crow With No Mouth: Ikkyu, Fifteenth Century Zen Master

“if there’s nowhere to rest at the end
how can I get lost on the way?”
― Ikkyu, Crow With No Mouth: Ikkyu, Fifteenth Century Zen Master

“I’d love to give you something
but what would help?”
― Ikkyu, Crow With No Mouth: Ikkyu, Fifteenth Century Zen Master

“night after night after night stay up all night
nothing but your own night”
― Ikkyu, Crow With No Mouth: Ikkyu, Fifteenth Century Zen Master