Growing older, I love only quietness: who need be concerned with the things of this world? Looking back, what better plan than this: returning to the grove.
I am asked why I live in the green mountains; I smile but reply not, for my heart is at rest. The flowing waters carry the image of the peach blossom… - Li Bai
I am asked why I live in the green mountains; I smile but reply not, for my heart is at rest. The flowing waters carry the image of the peach blossom…
- Li Bai
The paired butterflies are already yellow with August Over the grass in the West garden; They hurt me. I grow older. - Li Bai
The paired butterflies are already yellow with August Over the grass in the West garden; They hurt me. I grow older.
Shade and light are different in every valley. - Li Bai
Shade and light are different in every valley.
Heaven is high, Earth Wide. Bitter between them flies my sorrow. - Li Bai
Heaven is high, Earth Wide. Bitter between them flies my sorrow.
The living is a passing traveler; The dead, a man come home. - Li Bai
The living is a passing traveler; The dead, a man come home.
The world is like a great empty dream. Why should one toil away one's life? - Li Bai
The world is like a great empty dream. Why should one toil away one's life?
The birds have vanished into the sky, and now the last cloud drains away. We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains. - Li Bai
The birds have vanished into the sky, and now the last cloud drains away. We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains.
Since Life is but a Dream, Why toil to no avail? - Li Bai
Since Life is but a Dream, Why toil to no avail?
You ask why I make my home n the mountain forest, and I smile, and am silent, and even my soul remains quiet: it lives in the other world which… - Li Bai
You ask why I make my home n the mountain forest, and I smile, and am silent, and even my soul remains quiet: it lives in the other world which…
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