Yosano Akiko 与謝野晶子
1901 · Meiji–Showa Japan
That girl is twenty: the black hair streaming through her comb, how beautiful the pride of her spring.
その子二十櫛にながるる黒髪のおごりの春のうつくしきかなTanka collection Tangled Hair (Midaregami)
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Walt Whitman
first published 1855, revised all his life · United States
I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
"Song of Myself" 1, in Leaves of Grass
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
November 8, 1777 · Salzburg · Vienna
I cannot write poetically, for I am no poet. I cannot make fine artistic phrases that cast light and shadow, for I am no painter; I can neither by signs nor by pantomime express my thoughts and feelings, for I am no dancer; but I can by tones, for I am a musician.Letter to his father, from Mannheim · in place of the original: the English translation by Lady Wallace (1865)
Anton Chekhov Антон Чехов
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Medicine is my lawful wife and literature is my mistress. When I get tired of one I spend the night with the other.Letter to Suvorin · in place of the original: the English translation by Constance Garnett (1920)
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