Wang Zhihuan (688–742) Chinese poet
"On the Stork Tower" (《登鹳雀楼》), trans. Yuanchong Xu
“[I was] happily contended to be climbing the heights and the clouds by the brush method.... rendering the God-spirit in the mountains.”
letter to Horace Traubel around 1908; as quoted in Marsden Hartley, by Gail R. Scott, Abbeville Publishers, Cross River Press, 1988, New York p. 18
1908 - 1920
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