Did Du Fu really say 'My poems are no use—they won’t fill anyone’s stomach.'?

Du Fu Quote Source & Citation:

My poems are no use—they won’t fill anyone’s stomach.

— Du Fu Medieval · Chinese poet

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"The country is broken, but mountains and rivers remain."

"The river is so wide, even the birds can’t cross it."

"How I long to lie down in some gully, alone and untrammeled! But I laugh at myself: an old madman growing older, growing madder."

"The war has turned my hair white, but the wine turns it black again."

"Heaven's ways include the human: among a thousand sorrows, I stand alone."

From a self-deprecating note in his later years.

Date: circa 770

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