Hồ Xuân Hương: Quotes about destiny

Hồ Xuân Hương was Vietnamese poet. Explore interesting quotes on fate.
Hồ Xuân Hương: 14   quotes 0   likes

“I see it up there in the corner of my eye:
the General's tomb standing all alone.
If I could change my fate, become a man
of heroic deed, couldn't I do better?”

Hồ Xuân Hương

"At the Chinese General's Tomb"
Spring Essence (2000)

Fate , Change

“My body is white; my fate, softly rounded,
rising and sinking like mountains in streams.
Whatever way hands may shape me,
at center my heart is red and true.”

Hồ Xuân Hương

"The Floating Cake" (a metaphor for "woman")
Spring Essence (2000)

Fate , Way , Mountain , Heart

“To hell with the fate that makes you share a man… You slave like the maid, but without the pay. If I had known how it would go, I think I would have lived alone.”

Hồ Xuân Hương

As quoted in Vietnam Past and Present: The North, ed. Andrew Forbes and David Henley (Cognoscenti Books, 2012)

Fate , Hell , Thinking