Wang Wei: My Cottage at Deep South Mountain

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My Cottage at Deep South Mountain

Wang Wei, Wang Wei poetry, Buddhist, Buddhist poetry, poetry, [TRADITION SUB2] poetry, Taoist poetry

by Wang Wei
(699? - 761) Timeline

English version by
Willis Barnstone

Original Language
Chinese

Buddhist

Taoist

8th Century

In my middle years I love the Dao
and by Deep South Mountain I make my home.
When happy I go alone into the mountains.
Only I understand this joy.
I walk until the water ends, and sit
waiting for the hour when clouds rise.
If I happen to meet an old woodcutter,
I chat with him, laughing and lost to time.

-- from To Touch the Sky: Poems of Mystical, Spiritual & Metaphysical Light, Translated by Willis Barnstone

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Themes

Awakening

Bliss

Lover and Beloved

Mountain

Smile

Recommended Books

	An Anthology of Chinese Literature: Beginnings to 1911, Translated by Stephen Owen
	The Poetry of Zen: (Shambhala Library), Edited by Sam Hamill / Edited by J. P. Seaton
	Sunflower Splendor: Three Thousand Years of Chinese Poetry, Edited by Wu-chi Liu / Edited by Irving Yucheng Lo
	Three Chinese Poets: Translations of Poems by Wang Wei, Li Bai, and Du Fu, Translated by Vikram Seth
	To Touch the Sky: Poems of Mystical, Spiritual & Metaphysical Light, Translated by Willis Barnstone

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