Nie Gannu

thumb|Nie Gannu Nie Gannu (Chinese: 聂绀弩; 1903–1986) was a Chinese essayist. Quotes 以為舊詩適合於表達某種情感,二十余年來,我恰有此種情感,故發而為詩;詩有時自己形成,不用我做. [I] think old-style poetry is suitable for expressing a certain kind of feeling. In the past twenty years, I happened to have this feeling. So I wrote poems to articulate it. Sometimes poems formed themselves spontaneously. I did not have to compose them at all. "Self-Preface" to Sanyisheng shi 散宜生詩 (Poems of Sanyisheng), as quoted in A Modernity Set to a Pre-Modern Tune (2016) by Haosheng Yang, p. 211 Quotes about Nie Gannu When I left Beijing on a misty morning more than ten years ago, I hurriedly grabbed two favorite books and put them in my bag. One of them was Dream of the Red Chamber and the other was Poems of Sanyisheng by Nie Gannu. Liu Zaifu, Reflections on Dream of the Red Chamber, trans. Shu Yunzhong (Cambria Press, 2008), p. 4 External links Category:1903 births Category:1986 deaths Category:Essayists from China Category:Poets from China Category:Prisoners