“Following the roads
Of dream to you, my feet
Never rest. But one glimpse of you
In reality would be
Worth all these many nights of love.”

Source: Kenneth Rexroth's translations, One Hundred More Poems from the Japanese (1976), p. 33

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Yumeji ni wa Ashi mo yasumezu Kayoedo mo Utsutsu ni hitome Misbigoto wa arazu

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Japanese poet 825–900

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