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From the beginning
I knew meeting could only
End in parting, yet
I ignored the coming dawn
And I gave myself to you.

— Fujiwara no Teika

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On this spring night
the floating bridge of my dreams
has broken away:
and lifting off a far peak—
a cloud-bank in empty sky.

There are no teachers of Japanese poetry. But they who take the old poems as their teachers, steep their minds in the old style, and learn their words from the masters of former time — who of them will fail to write poetry?

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