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Quotes from A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems — Arthur Waley

d. 1966 England

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To the European poet the relation between man and woman is a thing of supreme importance and mystery. To the Chinese, it is something commonplace, obvious—a need of the body, not a satisfaction of the emotions.

A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems (1919)

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