Wang Wei Quotes

• Look in the perfumes of flowers and of nature for peace of mind and joy of life.

  Wang Wei

  Flower, Joy, Mind

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• A traveler s thoughts in the night Wander in a thousand miles of dreams.

  Wang Wei

  Dream, Travel, Night

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• O Day after day we can't help growing older.
  Year after year spring can't help seeming younger.
  Come let's enjoy our winecup today,
  Nor pity the flowers fallen.

  Wang Wei

  Spring, Flower, June

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• How could sufferings be relieved through purification? To know the Path is to get lost at the ford. Indeed, sickness comes from worldly love And poverty begins with the pursuit of greed.

  Wang Wei

  Buddhism, Greed, Suffering

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• To be a stranger in a strange land:
  Whenever one feasts, one thinks of one's brother twice as much as before,
  There where my brother far away is ascending,
  The dogwood is flowering, and a man is missed.

  Wang Wei

  Travel, Brother, Men

  "Thinking of My Brother in Shantung on the Ninth Day of the Ninth Moon". "The White Pony: An Anthology of Chinese Poetry", book edited by Robert Payne, 2014.

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• Walking on willow tree roads by a river dappled with peach blossoms, I look for spring light, but am everywhere lost. Birds fly up and scatter floating catkins. A ponderous wave of flowers sags the branches.

  Wang Wei

  Spring, Flower, Light

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• The autumn hill gathers the remaining light, A flying bird chases after its companion. The green color is bright And brings me into the moment, like a sunset mist that has no fixed place.

  Wang Wei

  Summer, Sunset, Autumn

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• Round a turn of the Qin Fortress winds the Wei River,
  And Yellow Mountain foot-hills enclose the Court of China;
  Past the South Gate willows comes the Car of Many Bells
  On the upper Palace-Garden Road-a solid length of blossom;
  A Forbidden City roof holds two phoenixes in cloud;
  The foliage of spring shelters multitudes from rain;
  And now, when the heavens are propitious for action,
  Here is our Emperor ready-no wasteful wanderer.

  Wang Wei

  Spring, Rain, Past

  Wang Wei, “Looking Down In A Spring-Rain”

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• A new home by a gap in the Meng wall; Of the old trees, a few gnarled willows are left. Those who come in the future, who will they be, Grieving in vain for what others had before?

  Wang Wei

  Time, Wall, Home

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