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Hồ Xuân Hương était une poétesse vietnamienne née à la fin de la dynastie Lê qui a vécu à une époque de troubles politiques et sociaux : la période de la rébellion et de la dynastie Tây Sơn sous le règne de Nguyễn Ánh. Elle a écrit la plupart de ses poèmes en Chữ nôm. Bien que peu de ses textes nous soient parvenus, on considère généralement qu'elle fait partie des plus grands poètes de la littérature vietnamienne. Un poète contemporain l'a même qualifiée de « reine de la poésie Nôm ». Wikipedia  

✵ 1772 – 1822
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Hồ Xuân Hương: Citations en anglais

“Sisters, do you know how it is? On one hand,
the bawling baby; on the other, your husband
sliding onto your stomach,
his little son still howling at your side.
Yet, everything must be put in order,
Rushing around all helter-skelter.
Husband and child, what obligations!
Sisters, do you know how it is?”

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"The Condition of Women"
Spring Essence (2000)

“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?”

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

“Praise whoever sketched this desolate scene.”

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"Autumn Landscape", line 2
Spring Essence (2000)

“Nirvana is here, nine times out of ten.”

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"Spring-Watching Pavilion", line 8
Spring Essence (2000)

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“Look, and love everyone.”

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"Autumn Landscape", line 7
Spring Essence (2000)

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