Around 2,700 of Su Song's poems have survived, along with 800 written letters.

His other poems survive only in small pieces.

He did not have time to edit his work, and 6500 poems survive from this period.

Only a few full poems and fragments of others survive.

This is true; but such poems have outlived their original purposes and now survive as aesthetic entities.

Very few ancient Greek poems survive with authentic musical notation.

Other poems by him may yet survive but cannot now be ascribed.

All told, nearly 1,700 poems survive in these three genres.

"The poem will not survive on content but through voice," she wrote.

Six other poems survive to his name, four with melodies.