"The stars lean perilously close to the earth tonight."

"I laugh at myself: an old madman growing older, growing madder."

"Dew is heavy on the grass below, the spider's web is ready. Heaven's ways include the human: among a thousand sorrows, I stand alone."

"At the grand vermillion gates, wine and meat spoils, while the road outside is paved with frozen bones."

"Saddened by the times I weep at the flowers tormented by the partings even the birds startle my heart."