“And who am I to blow against the wind?”
David Levithan (1972) American author and editor
Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
“The West Wind blows the curtains
And I am frailer than the yellow chrysanthemums.”
《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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