They say you’re staying in a mountain temple,
In Hang-chou–or is it Yüeh-chou?
In the wind and grime of war, how long since we parted!
At Chiang-han, bright autumns waste away.
While my shadow rests by monkey-loud trees,
my soul whirls off to where shell-born towers rise.
Next year on floods of spring I’ll go downriver,
to the white clouds at the end of the east I’ll look for you!
translated by Burton Watson
from Douglas Moore’s Art of Quotation
“If you disrespect everybody that you run into, how in the world do you think everybody’s supposed to respect you?”
thunder sounds
the cat’s ear perk
waiting for the rain
to come
to wash the heat
away
a glass of whiskey
the cat on my arm
the sounds of night
riches abound
All my life has been like this–
what way to turn and not run into blocks?
But Heaven has sent me a dipper of water;
arm for a pillow, my happiness overflows.
translated by Burton Watson
The Master said, “With coarse grain to eat, water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow–I still have joy in the midst of these. Riches and honor unrighteously acquired are to me a floating cloud.”
translated by Burton Watson
from Douglas Moore’s Art of Quotation
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