"Ts'ao is noted for finally passing his chin-shih examination when he was over seventy along with four other septuagen…"

"For already I have learned, that a general's fame stands on a pile of dry bones Of what were once the people."

"The years of the were the golden age of Chinese poetry. Nearly fifty thousand poems written during these 300 years ar…"

"::::-Kao Shih: Ballail of Yert-->"

":::: —Tsao Sung: War"

"[A Protest in the Sixth Year of Ch'ien Fu is] perhaps the most widely-known short antiwar poem in Chinese literature."

"宁為太平犬，莫作亂离人！"

"This eerie, silent night, this round of perfect peace, This song of gratitude that rises in my throat – And at once t…"

"On 15 July 1946 he addressed a public meeting in memory of Li Gongpu, a Democratic League leader shot by the Guominda…"

"The stronger the poet is, the more he revels in dancing in shackles, and the better he dances."