Nguyễn Duy

Nguyễn Duy (born December 7, 1948) is a Vietnamese poet.

Quotes

Distant Road (1999)

Distant Road: Selected Poems of Nguyen Duy, trans. Nguyen Ba Chung and Kevin Bowen (Curbstone Press, 1999), ISBN 978-1880684610

• Whatever has happened, the land always lives within us... We are the people and we will endure.
  • "Our Nation from a Distance" (1988)

• In the end, in every war,
  whoever won, the people always lost.
  • "Oh Stone" (Cambodia, 1989)