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Selected Poems of the Obscure

We said goodbye for two years
The result of goodbye
Is always a reunion
—(Gu Cheng)


Every interaction is a first encounter
Every love exists in the heart
Every past is in dreams
—(Bei Dao)


“If one day you too cannot escape withering,
I have only a simple hope:
To maintain the tranquility of the first bloom.”
—(Bei Dao)


“Who wouldn’t wish
Every day
To be a poem
With every word a star?”
—(Jiang He)


“The land says: I want to approach the sky
So, the mountains rise
People say: I want to live
So, the flood recedes.”
—(Jiang He)


“The moon walks home with me
I want to take her into the days to come
Quietly all the way.”
—(Jiang He)


I have never regretted
People easily sleepwalk in the moonlight
Desiring to obtain and understanding
—(Shu Ting)


As if forever separated
Yet dependent for a lifetime
This is true great love
—(Shu Ting)


“It is a storm, a lamp
That connects us together
It is another storm, another lamp
That makes us part ways.”
—(Shu Ting)


“The world may be very small
But the realm of the heart is vast.”
—(Shu Ting)


“If there were no farewells and reunions
If one dared not bear joy and sorrow
What meaning would the soul have
What would life be called?”
—(Shu Ting)