Thousand piled-up cloud peaks, ten-thousand vast lakes,
White waves divide, wrap around Sorceress Wu.
In jest you know, pillow talk meaning,
Deep is the mouth of the Qutang Gorge.
"Translation is both necessary and necessarily flawed. It is necessary because we want a clear rendition of the text from a foreign language. It is necessarily flawed because so much of the original has no equivalent-or only an approximate equivalent- in the language of translation." From the introduction by Zhaoming Qian to 'Ezra Pound and China', University of Michigan Press.