Best 13 quotes of Izumi Shikibu on MyQuotes

Although I try / to hold the single thought / of Buddha's teaching in my heart, / I cannot help but hear / the many crickets' voices calling as well.

Come quickly -- as soon as these blossoms open, they fall. This world exists as a sheen of dew on flowers.

Even when a river of tears courses through this body, the flame of love cannot be quenched.

In love longing I listen to the monk's bell. I will never forget you even for an interval short as those between the bell notes.

In this world love has no color yet how deeply my body is stained by yours.

Rather than recallin these flowersthe fragrance of the past,I would like to hear this nightingale's voice,to know if his song is as sweet.

The one close to me now; even my own body--these too will soon become clouds, floating in different directions.

Watching the moon at midnight, solitary, mid-sky, I knew myself completely, no part left out.

Although the cricket's song has no words, still, it sounds like sorrow.

Although the wind blows terribly here, the moonlight also leaks between the roof planks of this ruined house.

If the one I waited for came now, what should I do? This morning's garden filled with snow is far too lovely for footsteps to mar.

Oi elämäni, toivoton sammumaton. Miten kadehdin tuulen tuivertamia soihtuja yössä.

When the netted fence of spiderwebs that darkens my ruined house can hold the wind in its strands- that's when these troubled thoughts will blow away. . . .