Chinese pragmatist, Hu Shih: Creator



你不能做我的詩。
正如我不能做你的夢

You cannot write my poems
Just as I cannot dream your dreams.
-Hu Shih


Buried in a tomb in Nankang
Reformer, scholar, diplomat
In an era of change, Hu Shih
Whispering to the poet:
Evolve

Let him cultivate and stimulate
Solve problems.  Do not imitate
The ancients. Hu's marriage:
Arranged. Girl, illiterate, feet
Bound

Speak, said Hu, when you have
Something to say. Substance,
Then subtlety, in the way you want
In the language you live, without
Cliché


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