Duo Duo Quotes

Duo Duo or Duoduo is the pen name of contemporary Chinese poet, Li Shizheng , a prominent exponent of the Chinese Misty Poets . Duo Duo was awarded the 2010 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. Wikipedia

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Famous Duo Duo Quotes

“On a night full of symbols
The moon is like an invalid's pallid face
Like a mistaken shifted time
And death, like a doctor standing before the bed”

"Night" (1973), p. 9
The Boy who Catches Wasps (2002)

“They are reduced to wrongdoers of the mind
Merely because: They misused parables.
(…)
They are people who have missed life, stuck in a place where life is misunderstood
Everything they have gone through —— is a mere tragedy of birth”

"Instruction" (1976), p. 29
The Boy who Catches Wasps (2002)

“Looking out from death you will always see
Those whom all your life you ought not to see”

"Looking Out from Death" (1983), p. 51
The Boy who Catches Wasps (2002)

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