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Chu Shu-chen

  • “Tonight as always / There is no one to share my thoughts.”

    • Chu Shu-chen,
    • "Alone" (1182), in Aliki Barnstone and Willis Barnstone, eds., A Book of Women Poets From Antiquity to Now ()

  • “I write poems, change and correct them, / And finally throw them away.”

    • Chu Shu-chen,
    • "Alone" (1182), in Aliki Barnstone and Willis Barnstone, eds., A Book of Women Poets From Antiquity to Now ()

Chu Shu-chen, Chinese poet

(12th cent.)