Border Town Quotes

“Wind and sun have tanned the growing girl's skin, her eyes resting on green hills are as clear as crystal. Nature is her mother and teacher, making her innocent, lively, and untamed as some small wild creature.”
― Shen Congwen, Border Town

“恬静美丽的画面中有了淡淡的愁怨，读者感受到的有诗歌的意境，有哲理的隽永，而且其中自然夹杂着的一些文言词语，更具有一种古典的精美。”
― Shen Congwen, 边城

“但那些看来不用心修饰的句子，却是以自然为最高修辞原则，以恬静之美为最高美学风范，营造了一个如诗如画的意境。其中，”
― Shen Congwen, 边城

“And Cuicui--Cuicui was thinking about so many things, amid the calls of the finches and cuckoo birds in the mountains and the chop of lumbermen, felling bamboos in the valley.s Stories of tigers eating people, and the mountain songs people sang to belittle and make fun of each other, the square pit in which papermakers mixed their pulp, the molten iron that flowed out of a foundry smelting furnace--she felt compelled to recollect everything her ears had heard and her eyes had seen. It seemed to be her way of putting aside the present matter and wishing it away. And yet she misunderstood what was really going on. (91)”
― Shen Congwen, Border Town