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.
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Li Bai
To be a stranger in a strange land: Whenever one feasts, one thinks of one’s brother twice as much as before, There where my brother far away is ascending, The dogwood is flowering, and a man is missed.
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Wang wei
I wish we could be trees deep in the mountains,
touching, twining limb around limb
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Bai Juyi
It's human nature to dote on young ones,
and people when they grow old get soft-hearted.
But the sweetest wine in the end turns sour,
the moon, however full, eventually must wane.
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Bai Juyi
I remember, when I was young, How easily my mood changed from sad to gay. ... But now that age comes, A moment of joy is harder and harder to get.
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Bai Juyi
The bloom is not a bloom,
The mist not mist.
At midnight she comes,
And goes again at dawn.
She comes like a spring dream - how long will she stay?
She goes like morning cloud, without a trace.
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Bai Juyi
On the seventh day of the Seventh-month, in the Palace of Long Life,
We told each other secretly in the quiet midnight world
That we wished to fly in heaven, two birds with the wings of one,
And to grow together on the earth, two branches of one tree."
Earth endures, heaven endures; some time both shall end,
While this unending sorrow goes on and on for ever.
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Bai Juyi
