The paired butterflies are already yellow with August Over the grass in the West garden; They hurt me. I grow older.

- Li Bai

Shade and light are different in every valley.

- 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

Since Life is but a Dream, Why toil to no avail?

- 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…

- Li Bai

Heaven is high, Earth Wide. Bitter between them flies my sorrow.

- Li Bai

All the birds have flown up and gone; A lonely cloud floats leisurely by. We never tire of looking at each other - Only the mountain and I.

- Li Bai

The living is a passing traveler; The dead, a man come home.

- Li Bai

The world is like a great empty dream. Why should one toil away one's life?

- Li Bai