“The West Wind blows the curtains
And I am frailer than the yellow chrysanthemums.”

—  Li Qingzhao

《醉花陰》 ("Ninth Day, Ninth Month"), as translated by Kenneth Rexroth and ‎Ling Chung in Li Ch'ing-chao: Complete Poems (New Directions, 1979), p. 14

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簾捲西風，人比黃花瘦。

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