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Du Fu

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“好雨知時節，當春乃發生。隨風潛入夜，潤物細無聲。”
Du Fu (712–770) said by 770 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Spring Night, Delighted by Rain"(《春夜喜雨》), in The Selected Poems of Tu Fu, trans. David Hinton (New Directions Publishing, 1989), p. 61
“人生不相見，動如參與商。今夕復何夕，共此燈燭光。少壯能幾時，鬢髮各已蒼。訪舊半爲鬼，驚呼熱中腸。焉知二十載，重上君子堂。昔別君未婚，兒女忽成行。怡然敬父執，問我來何方。問答乃未已，兒女羅酒漿。夜雨剪春韭，新炊間黃粱。主稱會面難，一舉累十觴。十觴亦不醉，感子故意長。明日隔山嶽，世事兩茫茫。”
Du Fu (712–770) said by 770 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“戰哭多新鬼，愁吟獨老翁。亂雲低薄暮，急雪舞迴風。瓢棄尊無綠，爐存火似紅。數州訊息斷，愁坐正書空。”
Du Fu (712–770) said by 770 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Snow Storm" (對雪), as translated by Kenneth Rexroth in One Hundred Poems from the Chinese (1971), p. 6
“天際秋雲薄，從西萬里風。今朝好晴景，久雨不妨農。塞柳行疏翠，山梨結小紅。胡笳樓上發，一雁入高空。”
Du Fu (712–770) said by 770 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Clear After Rain" (雨晴), as translated by Kenneth Rexroth in One Hundred Poems from the Chinese (1971), p. 16
“I'm empty, here at the edge of the sky.”
Du Fu (712–770) said by 770 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Poem on Night" (trans. Jan W. Walls), in Sunflower Splendor: Three Thousand Years of Chinese Poetry, eds. Wu-chi Liu and Irving Yucheng Lo (1975), p. 139
“君不見青海頭古來白骨無人收新鬼煩冤舊鬼哭”
Du Fu (712–770) said by 770 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From the poem 兵車行. English translation from New Ghosts Old Ghosts: Prisons and Labor Reform Camps in China (1998) by James Seymour and Richard Anderson
“Birds the more white, against green stream Blooms burst to flame, against blue hills I glance, the spring is gone again. What day, what day, can I go home?”
Du Fu (712–770) said by 770 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Quatrain" (trans. Jerome P. Seaton), in Sunflower Splendor: Three Thousand Years of Chinese Poetry, eds. Wu-chi Liu and Irving Yucheng Lo (1975), p. 142
“Nature ever calls people to live Along with her; why should I be lured By transient rank and honours?”
Du Fu (712–770) said by 770 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Winding River", as translated by Rewi Alley in Du Fu: Selected Poems (1962), p. 54
“Clear waters wind Around our village, With long summer days Full of loveliness; Fluttering in and out From the house beams The swallows play; Waterfowl disport together As everlasting lovers; ... What more could I wish for?”
Du Fu (712–770) said by 770 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The River by Our Village", as translated by Rewi Alley in Du Fu: Selected Poems (1962), p. 100
“A visible darkness grows up mountain paths; I lodge by the river gate high in a study, Frail cloud on a cliff edge passing the night. The lonely moon topples amid the waves; Steady, one after another, a line of cranes in flight. Howling over the kill, wild dogs and wolves. No sleep for me. I worry over battles— I have no strength to right the universe.”
Du Fu (712–770) said by 770 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Tonight my wife must watch alone the full moon over Fu-zhou; I think sadly of my sons and daughters far away, too young to understand this separation or remember our life in Chang'an. In fragrant mist, her flowing hair is damp; In clear moonlight, her jade-white arms are cold. When will we lean at the open casement together while the moonlight dries our shining tears?”
Du Fu (712–770) said by 770 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“無邊落木蕭蕭下，不盡長江滾滾來。”
Du Fu (712–770) said by 770 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On the Heights", in Song of the Immortals: An Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry, trans. Yuanchong Xu (Penguin Books, 1994), p. 60