Stephen Leacock
Canadian writer and economist
Du Fu
Tang dynasty Chinese poet (712-770)
Du Fuwas a Chinese poet and politician during the Tang dynasty. Together with his elder contemporary and friend Li Bai, Du is often considered one of the greatest Chinese poets.
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Du Fuwas a Chinese poet and politician during the Tang dynasty. Together with his elder contemporary and friend Li Bai, Du is often considered one of the greatest Chinese poets. His greatest ambition was to serve his country as a successful civil servant, but Du proved unable to make the necessary accommodations. His life, like all of China, was devastated by the An Lushan Rebellion of 755, and his last 15 years were a time of almost constant unrest.
Although initially he was little-known to other writers, his works came to be hugely influential in both Chinese and Japanese literary culture. Of his poetic writing, nearly fifteen hundred poems have been preserved over the ages. He has been called the “Poet-Historian” and the “Poet-Sage” by Chinese critics, while the range of his work has allowed him to be introduced to Western readers as “the Chinese Virgil, Horace, Ovid, Shakespeare, Milton, Burns, Wordsworth, Beranger, Hugo or Baudelaire”.
4 Quotes by Du Fu
- 1.
This morning’s scene is good and fine, Long rain has not harmed the land.
Du FuTang dynasty Chinese poet (712-770)
- 2.
My heart is in a world of water and crystal, My clothes are damp in this time of spring rains.
Du FuTang dynasty Chinese poet (712-770)
- 3.
This cream will help one’s nature strengthen and grow, The diet gives support in my decline.
Du FuTang dynasty Chinese poet (712-770)
- 4.
The weeping voices rise straight up and strike the clouds. A passer-by at the roadside asks a conscript why, The conscript answers only that drafting happens often.
Du FuTang dynasty Chinese poet (712-770)