Izumi Sano Quotes

Since the day I first met you, you've given me so many precious things. If I hadn't met you, I would never have become the person I am today. ~ Hisaya Nakajo

I'm who I am now because you've been with me. ~ Hisaya Nakajo

The reason I'm keeping her secret for her, pretending that I don't know she's a girl is because I don't want to lose her. And that's exactly why I can't let her know that I know. ~ Hisaya Nakajo

The way I must enter
leads through darkness to darkness-
O moon above the mountain's rim,
please shine a little further
on my path, ~ Izumi Shikibu

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

Master Triangle, Round Round, Lord of the Square. ~ Kyōka Izumi

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

Perhaps, if I make a friend
of the mountain cuckoo
in this world,
he will talk to me
when we cross the mountain of death ~ Izumi Shikibu

For a moment
he became smoke.
How intimate,
now,
the cloudy sky. ~ Izumi Shikibu

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. ~ Izumi Shikibu

When a girl smiles, she's as beautiful as a blooming flower. ~ Daisuke Hagiwara

Sit mens sana in corpore sano
(a healthy mind in a healthy body) ~ Juvenal

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

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

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