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He Zhizhang Quotes

d. 744 China

He Zhizhang (659–744) was a Chinese poet born in present-day Xiaoshan, Zhejiang during the Tang Dynasty.

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I left home young. I returned old;
Speaking as then, but with hair grown thin;
And my children, meeting me, do not know me.
They smile and say: "Stranger, where do you come from?"

Ten thousand branches of tall trees begin to sprout,
They droop like fringes of a robe made of green jade.
But do you know by whom these young leaves are cut out?
The early spring wind is as sharp as scissor blade.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: He Zhizhang (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.