Ono no Komachi (825–900) Japanese poet
Source: Donald Keene's Anthology of Japanese Literature (1955), p. 79
“In this forlorn state
I find life dreary indeed:
if a stream beckoned,
I would gladly cut my roots
and float away like duckweed.”
Source: Helen Craig McCullough's translations, Kokin Wakashū: The First Imperial Anthology of Japanese Poetry (1985), p. 206
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