classic waka stream

そむくとて雲にはのらぬものなれど
世のうきことぞよそになるてふ
Roma-ji

Somuku tote kumo ni wa noranu mono naredo
yo no uki koto zo yoso ni naru chō

English Translation
Though one turns away,
One does not mount upon clouds
And fly from the world;
Yet the bitter things of life
Are said to grow far away.
Meaning
Even if one turns away from the world and becomes a nun, it is not as though one mounts the clouds and flies away. Yet they say that the painful things of this world grow distant.
Commentary
102. Though One Turns Away

There was a certain man. Though he did not compose poems, he understood well the feelings that arise between men and women. A noble lady had become a nun, and finding human relationships painful, she lived in a mountain village far from the capital.
The poem was composed and sent by the man, who was related to the woman who had become a nun.
This woman was an Imperial Princess who had served as the Saiō of the Ise Shrine.

Those who have fully known the complexities of human relationships and the depth of human emotions, yet cannot completely cut themselves free from them, may feel a certain longing for the way renunciation places distance between oneself and the world.
Source
Ise Monogatari
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