“There is another world, other than/ this one we choose to live in.”

“And sorrows return, though we drown them with wine,Since the world can in no way answer our craving,I will loosen my hair tomorrow and take to a fishingboat.”

“No one understands now. Those who couldhear a song this deeply vanished long ago.”

“A pity it is evening, yetI do love the water of this springseeing how clear it is, how clean;rays of sunset gleam on it,lighting up its ripples, making itone with those who travelthe roads; I turn ...”

“From the walls of Baidi high in the colored dawnTo Jiangling by night-fall is three hundred miles,Yet monkeys are still calling on both banks behind meTo my boat these ten thousand mountains away.”

“All the birds have flown up and gone;A lonely cloud floats leisurely by.We never tire of looking at each other—Only the mountain and I.”

“I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained; this i...”

“If I should get lost in all the chaos of the world, pull your butterly net and catch me in the beauty of your love. Remind me of important things -- friends, flowers, fields of cool grass under bar...”

“Make no attachment, so you can flow freely.”