another translation of a famous poem: After Reading Lao Tzo by Po Chu-i

“One who speaks does not know; one who knows does not speak.”
Thus I have been instructed by the Old Master.

If you tell me the Old Master was one who knew, I ask,
Why did he write five thousand words to explain it.

translated by Sam Hamill

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