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The Jade Flute: Chinese Poems in Prose QUOTES

The Jade Flute: Chinese Poems in Prose QUOTES

1 " The autumn moon is dancing in the green waters of Lake Nan-Hou. Now the sound of my oars has troubled the love-song of white water-lilies singing to the moon. "

― , The Jade Flute: Chinese Poems in Prose

2 " Clean the October wind. Clear the October moon. Heaped brown leaves are blowing...a black raven flies from its icy roost.
I dream of you. Will I ever see you again? Ah, night of sorrowing heart! "

― , The Jade Flute: Chinese Poems in Prose

3 " Here, day and night, the prettiest women of the Empire are dancing...songs and laughter echo from the golden screens.
When all the others are overcome with drinking, I put down my wine. I take my brush, I wet the golden ink, and I write sad poems with swaying characters that look like these rosy bodies strewn on a marble floor. "

― , The Jade Flute: Chinese Poems in Prose

4 " Oh Dragon, ruler of the shoreless sea of death, carry away my belovèd, while, leaning over her with passion, I drink in her perfumed breath.
Carry her away in your ship of ghosts, and carry me away with her...that we may float forever together on that sea, drunken with love. "

― , The Jade Flute: Chinese Poems in Prose

5 " You ask me: when will I come home? There is no date settled yet. Here, at Pa-Shan in autumn, evening rain floods the hollows.

O for the time when we can put out the candle together by the Western window...O for the time when I can tell you how I feel here tonight at Pa-Shan, when autumn rain floods the hollows. "

― , The Jade Flute: Chinese Poems in Prose

6 " I planted bamboos,

more than a

hundred shoots.

When I see their

beauty, as they grow

by the stream-side,

I feel again as though

I lived in the hills,

And many a time on

public holidays

Round their railing I

walk till night comes "

― , The Jade Flute: Chinese Poems in Prose