5 Quotes by Li Po

There is another world, other than/ this one we choose to live in.

You ask why I make my home in the mountain forest,and I smile, and am silent,and even my soul remains quiet:it lives in the other worldwhich no one owns.The peach trees blossom,The water flows.

No one understands now. Those who couldhear a song this deeply vanished long ago.

A pity it is evening, yetI do love the water of this springseeing how clear it is, how clean;rays of sunset gleam on it,lighting up its ripples, making itone with those who travelthe roads; I turn and facethe moon; sing it a song, thenlisten to the sound of the windamongst the pines.

Never refuse wine. I'm telling you,people come smiling in spring winds:peach and plum like old friends, theiropen blossoms scattering toward me,singing orioles in jade-green trees,and moonlight probing gold winejars.