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
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.
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Li Bai
My heart is in a world of water and crystal, My clothes are damp in this time of spring rains.
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Du Fu
A falcon hovers at the edge of the sky. Two gulls drift slowly up the river.Vulnerable while they ride the wind, they coast and glide with ease.Dew is heavy on the grass below, the spider's web is ready.Heaven's ways include the human:among a thousand sorrows, I stand alone.
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Du Fu
The bitter pinecone may be eaten, The mist on high give nourishment. The whole world takes to go-and-getting; My way alone is difficult.
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Du Fu
Could I get mansions covering ten thousand miles, I'd house all the poor scholars and make them beam with smiles
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Du Fu
I see shining fish struggling within tight nets, while I hear orioles singing carefree tunes. Even trivial creatures know the difference between freedom and bondage. Sympathy and compassion should be but natural to the human heart.
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Du Fu
Walking on willow tree roads by a river dappled with peach blossoms, I look for spring light, but am everywhere lost. Birds fly up and scatter floating catkins. A ponderous wave of flowers sags the branches.
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Wang wei
How could sufferings be relieved through purification? To know the Path is to get lost at the ford. Indeed, sickness comes from worldly love And poverty begins with the pursuit of greed.
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Wang wei
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
