He Zhizhang

He Zhizhang (659–744) was a Chinese poet born in present-day Xiaoshan, Zhejiang during the Tang Dynasty.

Quotes
萬條垂下綠絲縧. 不知細葉誰裁出， 二月春風似剪刀. They droop like fringes of a robe made of green jade. But do you know by whom these young leaves are cut out? The early spring wind is as sharp as scissor blade.
 * 碧玉妝成一樹高，
 * Ten thousand branches of tall trees begin to sprout,
 * "Willow Trees" (《咏柳》), in 150 Tang Poems, trans. Xu Yuan-zhong

兒童相見不相識，笑問客從何處來. Speaking as then, but with hair grown thin; And my children, meeting me, do not know me. They smile and say: "Stranger, where do you come from?"
 * 少小離家老大回，鄉音無改鬢毛衰.
 * I left home young. I returned old;
 * "Coming Home" (《回乡偶书》) in Three Hundred Poems of the Tang Dynasty, trans. Witter Bynner