Famous Đặng Trần Côn Quotes
“Here at this bridge we'll go our separate ways—
forlorn beside the road, I watch flags fly.”
Source: Chinh phụ ngâm, Lines 43–44
“We hoped to join like fish and water once:
instead, we're split apart—a stream, a cloud.”
Source: Chinh phụ ngâm, Lines 115–116
“Your way leads you to lands of rain and wind—
mine takes me back to our old room, our bed.”
Source: Chinh phụ ngâm, Lines 53–54
Đặng Trần Côn Quotes
“Serve well your country with a true-red heart.
Defend your people with an iron will.”
Source: Chinh phụ ngâm, Lines 369–370
“To silver may age never turn your hair!
And may I ever keep the looks of youth!”
Source: Chinh phụ ngâm, Lines 363–364
“I see you off and sorrow—Oh, to be
your horse on land, your vessel on the stream!”
Ðưa chàng lòng dằng dặc buồn,
Bộ khôn bằng ngựa, thủy khôn bằng thuyền.
Source: Chinh phụ ngâm, Lines 27–28
“At daybreak, heralds speed them through the mists—
the law outweighs what they may feel inside.”
Source: Chinh phụ ngâm, Lines 11–12
