Li Bai: Quotes about water

Li Bai was Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty poetry period. Explore interesting quotes on water.
Li Bai: 38 quotes5 likes

“See how the Yellow River's waters move out of heaven,
Entering the ocean, never to return.”

Li Bai

"Bringing In The Wine" http://www.sanjeev.net/poetry/po-li/bringing-in-the-wine-109723.html (將進酒)

“You ask why I make my home in the mountain forest,
and I smile, and am silent,
and even my soul remains quiet:
it lives in the other world
which no one owns.
The peach trees blossom,
The water flows.”

Li Bai

“Flying waters descending straight three thousand feet,
Till I think the Milky Way has tumbled from the ninth height of Heaven.”

Li Bai

"Viewing the Waterfall at Mount Lu" (望庐山瀑布), trans. Burton Watson