1. I have been talented and learned since I was a child, and have high ambitions in my life. Others have swords, but I have a pen like a knife. ——"Poems of a Prodigy"?
Translation: Ever since I was young, I have been talented and learned, and have high ambitions in my life; others carry swords, while I have a pen like a knife.
2. If you teach near the water, every word may become a dragon. ——Han Wo
Translation: If you put the screen by the water, every word may turn into a dragon and swim into the water.
3. There is nothing wrong with the brows, but there are many years in the writing. ——Song Zhaozaiding's "In the Mountains"?
Translation: There is nothing on the brow, but there are many years in the pen.
4. The falling paper stirred up the wind, shaking the sky and seeing thick dew. What else can we do without painting and literature? ——Tang Geng Tan's "Ode to Xuanzhou Bi"
Translation: The falling paper is startled by the wind, shaking the sky and seeing thick dew. Regarding painting and writing, what else can we do besides this? ?
5. The pen fell in the storm, and the poem became the weeping ghosts and gods. ——Du Fu of the Tang Dynasty, "Send Li Twelve and White Twenty Rhymes"?
Translation: When I saw him writing, the wind and rain sighed for him; when I saw his poems, the ghosts and gods were moved and cried.