This is the famous opening line of the recently-discovered mid-4th-century BCE manuscript 'Confucius's Essay on the Poetry' 〈孔子詩論〉. It reads: 'Poetry is not sparing of will [=desire]; Music is not sparing of emotions; Literary eloquence is not sparing of [words/meaning].'　孔子曰：「詩亡吝志，樂亡吝情，文亡吝［言／意］。」

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Data Analysis for Linguistic, Cultural, and Historical Research

Natural Language Processing

Digital Humanities and Digital Pedagogies

World Poetry: Ancient, Medieval, Modern

Taiwan's Past, Present, Future: Sunflowers Thrive on the Edges of the Garden

Beginning, Intermediate, Advanced Classical Chinese

Introduction to Chinese History and Civilization

Foundations of Classical Chinese Literature

Foundations of Chinese Historiography

Introduction to Chinese Poetics and Phonology

Introduction to Chinese Linguistics