To learn to be without desire, you must desire that;
Better to do as you please: sing idleness:
Floating clouds and water running—where’s their source?
In all the vastness of the sea and sky, you’ll never find it.
translated by J.P. Seaton
Author: zdunno03
Willow Flowers by Yüan Mei
Willow flowers, snowflakes
The same; they’re feckless—
No matter whose garden they fall in,
They always follow the wind away.
translated by J.P. Seaton
Money by Yüan Mei
There’s something to love in each thing in the world
Except money: that most insipid of all things:
In life, you can’t get it;
In death, you can’t take it.
translated by J.P. Seaton
from On Poetry: III by Chao Yi
The best of poetry comes from the destitute, but my pocket is not yet empty;
I gather, it’s all because I haven’t perfected my skill as a poet.
Having fish to eat or bear’s paw? I admit, I’m greedy for both;
I yearn for skill in poetry, yet how I dread being poor!
translated by Irving Lo
epitaph by Ching An
To transmit my mind, one bright moon,
And bury my bones beneath ten thousand plum-blossoms.
translated by Irving Lo
following Su Tung-p’o: in the twilight mist
there in the twilight mist
we stand
our eyes in clouds
of regret
we grope forward
seeking rest
only to find the mist
too thick
for these aging
weary eyes
and longing
so heavy
on our hearts
Earth Day 2019: “There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.”
from Douglas Moore’s Art of Quotation
something relevant for a certain world leader from the Book of Songs: No.52
See the rat–at least it’s got a hide,
but a man with no manners,
a man with no manners–
why doesn’t he just die!
See the rat–at least it’s got teeth,
but a man with no decorum,
a man with no decorum–
what’s keeping him! why doesn’t he die?
See the rat–at least it’s got legs,
but a man without courtesy,
a man without courtesy–
why doesn’t he hurry up and die!
translated by Burton Watson
“It is not ‘only’ food, I said heatedly. There’s meaning hidden underneath each dish.”
from Douglas Moore’s Art of Quotation
“It is not ‘only’ food, I said heatedly. There’s meaning hidden underneath each dish.”
“All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.”
from Douglas Moore’s Art of Quotation
“All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.”
James Thurber, book quote from “Further fables for our time”, 1978
Leonard Durso 