“Who says my poems are poems” by Ryōkan [w/ Audio]

Who says my poems are poems?
They aren't poems at all.

Only when you understand my poems aren't poems
Can we talk poetry.

This translation by Sam Hamill in The Poetry of Zen (2004) Boston: Shambhala, p. 159

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