Ono no Komachi: Quotes about flowers

Ono no Komachi was Japanese poet. Explore interesting quotes on flowers.
Ono no Komachi: 30   quotes 1   like

“The flowers and my love
Passed away under the rain,
While I idly looked upon them
Where is my yester-love?”

Ono no Komachi

Source: Yone Noguchi's [The Spirit of Japanese Poetry] (1914), p. 112

Love , Flowers

“So much I have learned:
the blossom that fades away,
its color unseen,
is the flower in the heart
of one who lives in this world.”

Ono no Komachi

Source: Helen Craig McCullough's translations, Kokin Wakashū: The First Imperial Anthology of Japanese Poetry (1985), p. 174

World , Color , Flowers , Learning

“Imperceptible
It withers in the world,
This flower-like human heart.”

Ono no Komachi

Source: Kenneth Rexroth's translations, One Hundred Poems from the Japanese (1955), p. 46

World , Flowers , Heart

“Alas! The beauty
of the flowers has faded
and come to nothing,
while I have watched the rain,
lost in melancholy thought.”

Ono no Komachi

Source: Helen Craig McCullough's translations, Kokin Wakashū: The First Imperial Anthology of Japanese Poetry (1985), p. 35

Beauty , Flowers

“A thing which fades
With no outward sign—
Is the flower
Of the heart of man
In this world!”

Ono no Komachi

trans. Arthur Waley, p. 78
Donald Keene's Anthology of Japanese Literature (1955)

World , Flowers , Heart