Ono No Komachi Quotes

#1. Undisturbed, my garden fills with summer growth - how I wish for one who would push the deep grass aside.

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#2. Is this love reality
Or a dream?
I cannot know,
When both reality and dreams
Exist without truly existing.

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#3. What is it about this twilight hour? Even the sound of a barely perceptible breeze pierces the heart.

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#4. A thing which fades With no outward sign- Is the flower Of the heart of man In this world!

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#5. Though we knew each other without overlapping our clothes, still, with this autumn wind's sound, I find myself waiting for you.

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#6. When my desire
grows too fierce
I wear my bed clothes
inside out,
dark as the night's rough husk.

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#7. Tears that but form gems on sleeves
must come, I think,
from an insincere heart,
for mine, though I seek to repress them,
gush forth in torrents.

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#8. However wildly
this year's cherry blossoms bloom,
I'll see them
with the plum's scent
filling my heart.

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#9. I long for him most
during these hot moonless nights.
I lie awake, hot,
the growing fires of passion
bursting, blazing in my heart.

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