Yone Noguchi

“ Ah, Nakedness! Nakedness—to whom Shame and Pride are buried in the peaceful tomb of Faith!
Ah, Loneliness! Loneliness—to whom a boatman of God is the sole savior on the vast Sea of Eternity!
I repose under the forest's arm-boughs—if I awaken not forever, pray, brother mortal,
Make my grave under the greenest grass and carve this line: "Here sleeps a nameless Poet." ”

“ I, an idle singer, fleeing from the world's shame, make a pilgrimage to an unknown land—O Heaven—or Hell?
Thou Silence, who never responds to mortal's voice, where is the secret door of Paradise?—Speak once unto me! ”