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Taoist
8th Century

About Li Po

Timeline (701 - 762)

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English version by
Sam Hamill

Original Language
Chinese
You ask why I make my home in the mountain forest,

Themes
  Bower
  Mountain
  Silence
  Smile
  Spring Blossom

 

Recommended Books

Endless River: Li Po and Tu Fu: A Friendship in Poetry, Translated by Sam Hamill
The Enlightened Heart: An Anthology of Sacred Poetry, by Stephen Mitchell
Li Pai: 200 Selected Poems, Translated by Rewi Alley
Li Po and Tu Fu: Poems, Translated by Arthur Cooper
The Poetry of Zen: (Shambhalla Library), Edited by Sam Hamill / Edited by J. P. Seaton

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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.

 

 

-- from Endless River: Li Po and Tu Fu: A Friendship in Poetry, Translated by Sam Hamill

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