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The best way to regain poetry is to recreate it.

— Xu Yuanchong

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By riverside are cooing
A pair of turtledoves;
A good young man is wooing
A maiden fair he loves.

Song of the Immortals: An Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry (1994)

To face the powder, not powder the face.

The sun beyond the mountains glows;
The Yellow River seawards flows.
You can enjoy a grander sight
By climbing to a greater height.

Song of the Immortals: An Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry (1994)

A verse translation should be faithful to the original, less in form than in sense. Or in other words, a poetic translation should be as beautiful as the original in sense, in sound and, if possible, in form.

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