Fu Xuan

“Anne Birrell, New Songs from a Jade Terrace (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1982), pp. 73, 238”

“{{w|Arthur Waler}}, A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1922), pp. 93–94”

“Contentment with poverty is Fortune's best gift: Riches and Honour are the handmaids of Disaster.”

“His love is distant as the stars in Heaven, Yet the sunflower bends toward the sun.”

“How sad it is to be a woman! Nothing on earth is held so cheap.”