Yang Wanli Professions : Poet Born : 1127 Died : 1206 Browse All Authors Top 4 quotes by Yang Wanli Get rid of words and meaning, and there is still poetry. Yang Wanli stills Get rid of words, and get rid of meaning, and still there is poetry. Yang Wanli stills I drink alone in my study, huddled close to the brazier. Yang Wanli drink study The poet must work with brush and paper,but this is not what makes the poem. A man does not go in search of a poem - the poem comes in search of him. Yang Wanli paper doe men Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poet All Authors