"Since olden days there's never been a man but dies; I'd leave a loyalist's name in history only."...

"If you have friends who know your heart, distance cannot keep you apart."...

"The written word knows no borders; beauty transcends mountains and seas."...

"What's truly vast isn't the sea, but the openness to understand each other and the world."...

For Chinese Poetry Ambassador Michael Crook, this line from Li Bai's "Descending Zhongnan Mountain and Meeting Si the Hermit" hits close to home — literally....

"Looking up, I find the moon bright; bowing, in homesickness I'm drowned."...