“If I live on longer,
shall I again, I wonder,
yearn for these days?
The world that I once saw as
bitter, now, is dear to me!”
– 12th-century waka poem by Lord Fujiwara no Kiyosuke in the Shin Kokinshū, translated by Joshua S. Mostow.
"Living a dream and dreaming of life."
“If I live on longer,
shall I again, I wonder,
yearn for these days?
The world that I once saw as
bitter, now, is dear to me!”
– 12th-century waka poem by Lord Fujiwara no Kiyosuke in the Shin Kokinshū, translated by Joshua S. Mostow.
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