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Bai Juyi
Author · Politician · 0772–0846
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Chinese poet of the Tang Dynasty (772-846)
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Read quote → ✓Source verified“I lay my harp on the curved table. Sitting there idly, filled only with emotions. Why should I trouble to play? A breeze will come and sweep the strings.”
Read quote → ✓Source verified“The root of poetry is in its emotions, its branches in its wording, its flowers in its rhyme and voice, and lastly its final culmination in the fruits of its meaning.”