Yu Kwang-chung

The Yellow River flows torrential in my veins.
China is me I am China.

Yu Kwang-chung (Chinese: 余光中; 21 October 1928 – 14 December 2017) was a Taiwanese writer, poet, educator and critic.

Quotes

• 小时候，乡愁是一枚小小的邮票，我在这头，母亲在那头。
  长大后，乡愁是一张窄窄的船票， 我在这头，新娘在那头。
  后来啊，乡愁是一方矮矮的坟墓，我在外头，母亲在里头。
  而现在，乡愁是一湾浅浅的海峡，我在这头，大陆在那头。

  • When I was small,
    Nostalgia was a tiny postage stamp,
    I, on this side,
    My mother, on the other.

    Later on,
    Nostalgia was a low tomb,
    I, outside.
    My mother, inside.

    And now,
    Nostalgia is the coastline, a shallow strait.
    I, on this side,
    The mainland, on the other.
    • "Nostalgia" (《乡愁》, "Xiangchou"), in The Isle Full of Noises: Modern Chinese Poetry from Taiwan, ed. and trans. Dominic Cheung (New York: Columbia University Press, 1987), p. 51

• The Yellow River flows torrential in my veins.
  China is me I am China.
  • "Music Percussive", in An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Literature. Taiwan: 1949–1974. Vol. I: Poems and Essays, eds. Pang-yuan Chi et al. (Taipei: National Institute for Compilation and Translation, 1977), p. 113

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Yu Kwang-chung on Wikipedia