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Izumi Shikibu quotes: Even if I now saw you only once, I would long for you through worlds, worlds, worlds.

Even if I now saw you only once, I would long for you through worlds, worlds, worlds.

Izumi Shikibu quotes: The one close to me now; even my own bodythese too will soon become clouds, floating in different directions.

The one close to me now; even my own body
these too will soon become clouds, floating in different directions.

Izumi Shikibu quotes: Watching the moon at midnight, solitary, mid-sky, I knew myself completely, no part left out.

Watching the moon at midnight, solitary, mid-sky, I knew myself completely, no part left out.

Izumi Shikibu quotes: In this worldlove has no coloryet how deeply my bodyis stained by yours.

In this world
love has no color
yet how deeply
my body
is stained by yours.

Izumi Shikibu quotes: In love longing I listen to the monk's bell. I will never forget you even for an interval short as those between the bell notes.

In love longing I listen to the monk's bell. I will never forget you even for an interval short as those between the bell notes.

Izumi Shikibu quotes: Come quickly as soon as these blossoms open, they fall. This world exists as a sheen of dew on flowers.

Come quickly
as soon as these blossoms open, they fall. This world exists as a sheen of dew on flowers.

Izumi Shikibu quotes: If the one I waited for came now, What should I do? This morning's garden filled with snowIs far too lovely For footsteps to mar.

If the one I waited for came now,
What should I do?
This morning's garden filled with snow
Is far too lovely
For footsteps to mar.

Izumi Shikibu quotes: Perhaps, if I make a friendof the mountain cuckooin this world,he will talk to mewhen we cross the mountain of death

Perhaps, if I make a friend
of the mountain cuckoo
in this world,
he will talk to me
when we cross the mountain of death

Izumi Shikibu quotes: Although I try / to hold the single thought / of Buddha's teaching in my heart, / I cannot help but hear / the many crickets' voices calling as well.

Although I try / to hold the single thought / of Buddha's teaching in my heart, / I cannot help but hear / the many crickets' voices calling as well.

Izumi Shikibu quotes: Even when a river of tears courses through this body, the flame of love cannot be quenched.

Even when a river of tears courses through this body, the flame of love cannot be quenched.

Izumi Shikibu quotes: For a momenthe became smoke.How intimate,now,the cloudy sky.

For a moment
he became smoke.
How intimate,
now,
the cloudy sky.