Xu Zhimo Quotes

Xu Zhimo (1897-1931)

Xu Zhimo, was an early 20th-century romantic Chinese poet who strove to loosen Chinese poetry from its traditional forms and to reshape it under the influences of Western poetry and the vernacular Chinese language. (Xu Zhimo Quotes)

“And then there are those ninth grade followers of European methods, who are as puerile in technique as they are void in imagination”
Xu Zhimo

“Drama as an art is quite unspeakable, although some old plays are admirable as a form of vulgar amusement”
Xu Zhimo

“If the materialistic west is a civilisation without a heart, as we are accustomed to regard it nowadays, ours, on the other hand is one without a soul”
Xu Zhimo

“Love, is transcendental and transfiguring, and being transfigured through that mysterious force, one’s mortal eyes”
Xu Zhimo

“Music is a paradise lost to us long long ago, perhaps never to be regained”
Xu Zhimo

“My personal experience has only discovered two classes of people in China; Cynics who despise love and cowards who are afraid of it”
Xu Zhimo

“No more light in the sky ahead, children where are you flying to?”
Xu Zhimo

“Our sages are preoccupied … with the not very easy task of equilibrating and harmonising the obvious impulses that men share with their fellow beings, such as food and sex”
Xu Zhimo

“Softly I am leaving, Just as softly as I came” (Xu Zhimo Quotes)
Xu Zhimo

“The lamp and compass of travellers. Cynosures twinkling, miles away”
Xu Zhimo

“The search for religion is the starting point of thought”
Xu Zhimo

“There the golden willow stands, a bride of sunset’s glow”
Xu Zhimo

“When we come to poetry, we can’t fancy a more poverty stricken predicament”
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“With all our virtues and qualities, we Chinese as a race have never realised and expressed ourselves completely, as the Greek and the Romans did, through the medium of art”
Xu Zhimo