No penance can your hard heart find save such as you long since have taught me to endure
Murasaki ShikibuCeaseless as the interminable voices of the bell-cricket, all night till dawn my tears flow.
Murasaki ShikibuOne ought not to be unkind to a woman merely on account of her plainness, any more than one had a right to take liberties with her merely because she was handsome
Murasaki Shikibu