Quotes about Japanese poetry

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To tell others thatIt is a rumor Will not do. When your own heart asks How will you respond? — Gosen Wakashū
Everyone calls him BlockheadNo one sings his praisesOr takes him to heart...That is the kind of personI want to be — Kenji Miyazawa, Strong in the Rain: Selected Poems
The color of the flower has faded, while I lost myself in idle thought in this long rain / 花の色は うつりにけりな いたづらに わが身世にふる なが — Ono no Komachi
Would the mountain cherry blossoms return my affection for there is no one else out here. /もろともに あはれと思へ 山桜 花よりほかに 知る人もなし — Former Chief Abbot Gyoson
May I live to see the day when I long for the agony I feel now. /ながらへば またこのごろや しのばれむ 憂しと見し世ぞ いまは恋しき — Fujiwara no Kiyosuke
Swift waters parted by the jagged rocks are joined at river's end. / 瀬をはやみ 岩にせかるる 滝川の われても末に あはむとぞ思ふ — Emperor Sutoku
With people you can never tell, Will they have changed when next we meet? But here in my dear old home at least, The plu — Fujiwara no Okikaze
Oh, you cherry petals, On this calm and balmy day, Why are you so restless, So keen to fly away? / ひさかたの 光のどけき 春の日に しづ心な — Ki no Tomonori
Impassionate gods have never seen the red that is the Tatsuta River. /ちはやぶる 神代も聞かず 竜田川 からくれなゐに 水くくるとは — Ariwara no Narihira