"I am a bird from mountains you don't know. My throat feels itchy—so I start to chirp when sings the morning wind among the leaves, when dreams the moon at midnight in the blue. Perched on a branch, the bird longs for its brook— it will break into song and not know why. Its ditties cannot make the fruits grow ripe; its carols cannot help the flowers bloom. It's profitless to sing, and yet the bird will burst its throat and heart to sing its best."
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"Foreword to a book of poems", in An Anthology of Vietnamese Poems, trans. Huỳnh Sanh Thông (Yale University Press, 1996),
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