"Men, be vigilant! Those are killers. They don't care about introspection, still-lifes, structuralism, colours and sou…"

"Listen to me, skull! Under your thin brittle boneplates what black memories haunt you? What do you want? What do you …"

"One translucent day I leave the city to visit my home, the land of Champa.Here are stupas gaunt with yearning, ancien…"

"O Heaven! Today I am sick and tired Of the colors and forms of this world! ... I close my eyes to disregard the prese…"

"...[E]ach moment of joy but prompts the more That madness buried at the base of dreamy souls, That sadness in the dar…"

"Pale, cold torchlight. Slender shadows from a row of tall bamboo Flicker dimly on the coffin of a child Carried throu…"

"Little sister, do you know why humanity passes down ancient tales, from hand to hand, from generation to generation? …"

"They destroy while we want to live"

"[A] bright star on the literary scene in the late 1930s was a young man from central Vietnam who wrote under the pen …"

"Chàng thì đi cõi xa mưa gió, Thiếp thì về buồng cũ gối chăn."