"Since the classical language has an easy grammar and limited vocabulary, a few months should suffice for the masterin…"

"I have not used rhyme, because what is really, in the long run, of most interest to American readers is what the poem…"

"When translating prose dialogue one ought to make the characters say things that people talking English could conceiv…"

"Anyone with a good classical education could learn Chinese by himself without difficulty."

"I would rather be dead."

"Real things in the darkness seem no realer than dreams."

"Ceaseless as the interminable voices of the bell-cricket, all night till dawn my tears flow."

"It is in general the unexplored that attracts us."

"Though the snow-drifts of Yoshino were heaped across his path, doubt not that whither his heart is set, his footsteps…"

"To the European poet the relation between man and woman is a thing of supreme importance and mystery. To the Chinese,…"