Quotes from Du Fu

This cream will help one's nature strengthen and grow, The diet gives support in my decline.

The weeping voices rise straight up and strike the clouds. A passer-by at the roadside asks a conscript why, The conscript answers only that drafting happens often.

This morning's scene is good and fine, Long rain has not harmed the land.

This cream will help one's nature strengthen and grow, The diet gives support in my decline.

My path is full of petals–I have swept it for no others. My thatch gate has been closed–but opens now for you. It's a long way to the market, I can offer you little– Yet here in my cottage there is old wine for our cups.

it's all one single grief.

Drifting, drifting,/ what am I more than/ a single gull/ between sky and earth?

Beneath the light, the river and hills are beautiful, The spring breeze bears the fragrance of flowers and grass. The mud has thawed, and swallows fly around. On the warm sand, mandarin ducks are sleeping

News comes from nowhere.

Two yellow orioles sing under emerald willows One line of White Egrets ascends clear skies Window frames Western riged snow of a thousand autumns Door moors Eastern Wu a boat of ten-thousand li

Who changes, who even slows this dead dazzling drunk in the wings of life we live?

On war-torn land streams flow and mountains stand

White gull in the vastness of the waves—ten thousand miles away, who can tame him?

This morning's scene is good and fine, Long rain has not harmed the land.

My heart is in a world of water and crystal, My clothes are damp in this time of spring rains.

Blue is the smoke of wrar, white the bones of men.