"Heaven's ways include the human: among a thousand sorrows, I stand alone."

"The mud has thawed, and swallows fly around, On the warm sand, mandarin ducks are sleeping."

"I’m so thin, my shadow could slip through a crack in the door."

"At the grand vermillion gates, wine and meat spoils, while the road outside is paved with frozen bones."

"After the war-fires of three months, One message from home is worth a ton of gold."