Xue Tao 薛濤
poet · Tang China · 768?–832
A woman poet of the Tang. She wrote poems on small red paper she made herself and exchanged them with the writers of her day.
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early 9th century
The flowers open and we do not enjoy them together. The flowers fall and we do not grieve together. If you ask when I long for you most: when the flowers open, and when the flowers fall.
花開不同賞，花落不同悲。
欲問相思處，花開花落時。"Spring Gazing," the first poem, in the Complete Tang Poems
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