Tu Fu idézet

Tu Fu , a Tang-dinasztia idején élt három legjelentősebb költő egyike, Li Paj és Po Csü-ji mellett. Li Paj fiatalabb kortársa. A Tang-kor négy irodalomtörténeti korszaka közül a másodiké, a Seng-tang alkotója volt. Wikipedia  

✵ 712 – 770
Tu Fu fénykép
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Tu Fu: Idézetek angolul

“The good rain knows its season.”

Forrás: Kim Cheng Boey, Between Stations: Essays (2009), p. 102
Kontextus: Spring Night, Delighting in Rain (A translation by Burton Watson)

The good rain knows when to fall,
stirring new growth the moment spring arrives.

Wind-borne, it steals softly into the night,
nourishing, enriching, delicate, and soundless.

Country paths black as the clouds above them;
on a river boat a lone torch flares.

Come dawn we'll see a landscape moist and pink,
blossoms heavy over the City of Brocade.

“Nature ever calls people to live
Along with her; why should I be lured
By transient rank and honours?”

"The Winding River", as translated by Rewi Alley in Du Fu: Selected Poems (1962), p. 54

“Good rain is coming to our delight.
Its early-spring timing is perfectly right.
With wind it drifts in all through the night.
Silently it's drenching everything in sight.”

"Welcome Rain in a Spring Night" (《春夜喜雨》), as translated by Ying Sun http://www.musicated.com/syh/tangpoems.htm (2008)

“I'm empty, here at the edge of the sky.”

"Poem on Night" (trans. Jan W. Walls), in Sunflower Splendor: Three Thousand Years of Chinese Poetry, eds. Wu-chi Liu and Irving Yucheng Lo (1975), p. 139

“Birds the more white, against green stream
Blooms burst to flame, against blue hills
I glance, the spring is gone again.
What day, what day, can I go home?”

"A Quatrain" (trans. Jerome P. Seaton), in Sunflower Splendor: Three Thousand Years of Chinese Poetry, eds. Wu-chi Liu and Irving Yucheng Lo (1975), p. 142

“The nation is ruined, but mountains and rivers remain.”

"Spring View" (trans. Gary Snyder), written in 755.
Variant translation (by David Hinton): The nation falls into ruins; rivers and mountains continue.

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