If the Fleeting World is but a long dream, it does not matter whether one is young or old.
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Bai Juyi
I remember, when I was young, How easily my mood changed from sad to gay. ... But now that age comes, A moment of joy is harder and harder to get.
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Bai Juyi
The bloom is not a bloom,
The mist not mist.
At midnight she comes,
And goes again at dawn.
She comes like a spring dream - how long will she stay?
She goes like morning cloud, without a trace.
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Bai Juyi
On the seventh day of the Seventh-month, in the Palace of Long Life,
We told each other secretly in the quiet midnight world
That we wished to fly in heaven, two birds with the wings of one,
And to grow together on the earth, two branches of one tree."
Earth endures, heaven endures; some time both shall end,
While this unending sorrow goes on and on for ever.
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Bai Juyi
Autumn clouds, vague and obscure; The evening, lonely and chill. I felt the dampness on my garments, But saw no spot, and heard no sound of rain.
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Bai Juyi
Everyone lets the present moment slip by, then looks for it as though he thought it were somewhere else.
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Yamamoto Tsunetomo
As everything in this world is but a sham, Death is the only sincerity.
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Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Please subdue the anguish of your soul. Nobody is destined only to happiness or to pain. The wheel of life takes one up and down by turn.
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Kalidasa
Deep within this valley
The light of spring
Comes late, so
‘Tis buried ‘neath the snow:
The bush-warbler’s song.
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Sugawara no Michizane
In a roadside field stands
A leafless willow tree-
Spring will come, and then
The wonders of long ago,
Will all return.
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Sugawara no Michizane
I’ve traveled
That dark path to the world
Which comes down from this mountain
Just to see you
One last time.
-
Ono no Komachi
Is this love reality
Or a dream?
I cannot know,
When both reality and dreams
Exist without truly existing
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Ono no Komachi
The color of the flower has faded,
while I lost myself in
idle thought in this long rain
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Ono no Komachi
What is it about this twilight hour? Even the sound of a barely perceptible breeze pierces the heart.
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Ono no Komachi
Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you'd ever imagined. Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself
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Rumi
