Frases de Arthur Waley

Arthur David Waley CH , CBE foi um orientalista e sinologista inglês.

✵ 19. Agosto 1889 – 27. Junho 1966
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Arthur Waley: Frases em inglês

“Ceaseless as the interminable voices of the bell-cricket, all night till dawn my tears flow.”

Fonte: Translations, The Tale of Genji (1925–1933), Ch. 1: 'Kiritsubo'

“Anyone with a good classical education could learn Chinese by himself without difficulty.”

1968 remark, quoted in Japan Quarterly, Vol. XVIII, No. 1 (January-March 1971), p. 107

“It is in general the unexplored that attracts us.”

Fonte: Translations, The Tale of Genji (1925–1933), Ch. 9: 'Aoi'

“A team of horses cannot overtake a word that has left the mouth.”

Fonte: Translations, Monkey: Folk Novel of China (1942), Ch. 27 (p. 266)

“Real things in the darkness seem no realer than dreams.”

Fonte: Translations, The Tale of Genji (1925–1933), Ch. 1: 'Kiritsubo'

“Nothing in the world is difficult,' said the Patriarch, 'it is only our own thoughts that make things seem so.”

Fonte: Translations, Monkey: Folk Novel of China (1942), Ch. 2 (p. 26)

“I would rather be dead.”

Response when offered the Chair in Chinese at Cambridge, as quoted in Orientalism and the Operatic World (2015) by Nicholas Tarling, p. 78