“Although I come to you constantly
over the roads of dreams,
those nights of love
are not worth one waking touch of you.”

— Ono no Komachi

Source: Kenneth Rexroth's translations, Women Poets of Japan (1982), p. 15

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Japanese poet 825–900

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