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From the walls of Baidi high in the colored dawn To Jiangling by night-fall is three hundred miles, Yet monkeys are still calling on both banks behind me To my boat these ten thousand mountains away.
Li Bai
Since life is but a dream, Why toil to no avail?
Li Bai
We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains.
Li Bai
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 world which no one owns. The peach trees blossom, The water flows.
Li Bai
The world is like a great empty dream. Why should one toil away one's life?
Li Bai
See how the Yellow River's waters move out of heaven, Entering the ocean, never to return.
Li Bai
When the hunter sets traps only for rabbits, tigers and dragons are left uncaught.
Li Bai
Before bed, the bright moon was shining. Now, I think the ground has a frost covering. I raise my head ... to view the bright moon, Then I lower my head ... and I think of home.
Li Bai
Flying waters descending straight three thousand feet, Till I think the Milky Way has tumbled from the ninth height of Heaven.
Li Bai
You ask me why do I dwell in these green mountains, But I smile without a reply, only an easy mind. The river flows away silently, bearing the fallen peach blossoms, Here is another world, but not the world of men.
Li Bai
I sat drinking and did not notice the dusk, Till falling petals filled the folds of my dress.
Li Bai
I will mount a long wind some day and break the heavy waves, And set my cloudy sail straight and bridge the deep, deep sea.
Li Bai
Here it is night: I stay at the Summit Temple. Here I can touch the stars with my hand. I dare not speak aloud in the silence For fear of disturbing the dwellers of Heaven.
Li Bai
Leaving at dawn the White Emperor crowned with cloud, I've sailed a thousand li through Canyons in a day. With the monkeys' adieus the riverbanks are loud, My skiff has left ten thousand mountains far away.
Li Bai
To find pleasure in life, make the most of the spring.
Li Bai
Shade and light are different in every valley.
Li Bai
Enjoy a cup of wine while you're alive! Do not care if your fame will not survive!
Li Bai
Her robe is a cloud, her face a flower; Her balcony, glimmering with the bright spring dew, Is either the tip of earth's Jade Mountain, Or a moon-edged roof of paradise.
Li Bai
On Mirror Lake outspread for miles and miles, The lotus lilies in full blossom teem. In fifth moon Xi Shi gathers them with smiles, Watchers o'erwhelm the bank of Yuoye Stream. Her boat turns back without waiting moonrise To royal house amid amorous sighs.
Li Bai