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Hồ Xuân Hương Quotes

1772–1822 Vietnam

Hồ Xuân Hương (Chinese: 胡春香; 1772 – 1822) was a Vietnamese poet and feminist.

Vietnam
Poets

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5 quotes

My body is white; my fate, softly rounded,
rising and sinking like mountains in streams.
Whatever way hands may shape me,
at center my heart is red and true.

Spring Essence (2000)

Nirvana is here, nine times out of ten.

Spring Essence (2000)

Praise whoever sketched this desolate scene.

Spring Essence (2000)

I see it up there in the corner of my eye:
the General's tomb standing all alone.
If I could change my fate, become a man
of heroic deed, couldn't I do better?

Spring Essence (2000)

To hell with the fate that makes you share a man... You slave like the maid, but without the pay. If I had known how it would go, I think I would have lived alone.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Hồ Xuân Hương (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.