Frasi di Nguyễn Du

Nguyễn Du è stato un poeta e scrittore vietnamita, scrisse in Chữ nôm, antica forma di scrittura del paese.

Ele è nato nel 1765 in Bích Câu, Thang Long. Nguyễn Du era un mandarino durante la dinastia Nguyen.

Egli è famoso per La storia di Kieu , una storia di bella ragazza che si era venduta per salvare suo padre. Oggi è ancora considerato come il simbolo della letteratura vietnamita. Wikipedia  

✵ 3. Gennaio 1765 – 16. Settembre 1820
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Nguyễn Du: Frasi in inglese

“Heaven grants us this hour: now from our gate
all mists have cleared; on high, clouds roll away.”

Nguyễn Du The Tale of Kieu

Origine: The Tale of Kiều (1813), Lines 3121–3122; quoted by Joe Biden, while welcoming Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong in Washington (July 2015), as reported in "The Tale of Kieu, lotus and the US President" by Bui Hoang Tam, dtinews.vn (25 May 2016) http://dtinews.vn/en/news/027/45323/the-tale-of-kieu--lotus-and-the-us-president.html: "Thank heaven we are here today, to see the sun through parting fog and clouds."

“Just as the lotus wilts, the mums bloom forth—
time softens grief, and winter turns to spring.”

Nguyễn Du The Tale of Kieu

Origine: The Tale of Kiều (1813), Lines 1795–1796; quoted by Bill Clinton, in "Remarks at a State Dinner Hosted by President Tran Duc Luong of Vietnam in Hanoi" (17 November 2000) http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=1030: "Just as the lotus wilts, the mums bloom forth; time softens grief; and the winter turns to spring."

“West Lake flower garden: a desert, now.
Alone, at the window, I read through old pages.
A smudge of rouge, a scent of perfume, but
I still weep.
Is there a Fate for books?
Why mourn for a half-burned poem?
There is nothing, there is no one to question,
and yet this misery feels like my own.
Ah, in another three hundred years
will anyone weep, remembering my fate?”

"Reading Hsiao-ch'ing", in The Harpercollins World Reader: The Modern World, eds. Mary Ann Caws and Christopher Prendergast (HarperCollins Publishers, 1994), ISBN 978-0065013832, p. 1411
Hsiao-Ching was "a seventeenth-century poet who was forced to become a concubine to a man whose jealous primary wife burned almost all of her poems" — David Damrosch, "Global Scripts and the Formation of Literary Traditions", in Approaches to World Literature (2013), p. 98

“Inside ourselves there lies the root of good:
the heart outweighs all talents on this earth.”

Nguyễn Du The Tale of Kieu

Origine: The Tale of Kiều (1813), Lines 3251–3252

“Now we stand face to face—but who can tell
we shan't wake up and learn it was a dream?”

Nguyễn Du The Tale of Kieu

Origine: The Tale of Kiều (1813), Lines 443–444

“How sorrowful is women's lot!" she cried.
"We all partake of woe, our common fate.”

Nguyễn Du The Tale of Kieu

Origine: The Tale of Kiều (1813), Lines 83–84

“She peered far into space: where was her home?”

Nguyễn Du The Tale of Kieu

Origine: The Tale of Kiều (1813), Line 1788

“By lamplight turn these scented leaves and read
a tale of love recorded in old books.”

Nguyễn Du The Tale of Kieu

Origine: The Tale of Kiều (1813), Lines 7–8

“Henceforth I'm bound to you for life," he said.
"Call these small gifts a token of my love.”

Nguyễn Du The Tale of Kieu

Origine: The Tale of Kiều (1813), Lines 355–356; quoted by Barack Obama, in "Remarks by President Obama in Address to the People of Vietnam" (24 May 2016) https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/05/24/remarks-president-obama-address-people-vietnam: "Please take from me this token of trust, so we can embark upon our 100-year journey together."

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