As the saying goes, you might as well be yourself; everyone else is taken.
You say to yourself, Well, this poem isn't going to be any good, but I'll write it anyway.
It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.
There is no hierarchy in Japanese Buddhist poetry.
Siblings tend not to care much about boundaries and borders. Having worn each others' T-shirts, it's unlikely that they'd go to war over a border.
I knew this friendship with myself couldn’t last forever.