Thế Lữ

Thế Lữ (1907-1989), also Nguyễn Thứ Lễ, was a Vietnamese writer, poet and playwright. He was leader of New Poetry movement of 1930s who wrote poems in a news style called May van tho (new rhymes) (1941). The style was flexible and it allowed for more self-expression.

Wisdom & Quotes

• I am but passionately in love

With beauty, in its myriad shapes and guises.
I take up the pen of poetry to portray
And the thousand-fretted lute to humn
Beauty - silent, raging or innocent,
Like the sublime and mighty beauty
Of mountains and rivers, and poetry, and thought.
- Cay dan vuon dieu (The Heavenly Flute)

Shun Akiyama