Wang Wei: Quotes about mountains

Wang Wei was a Tang dynasty Chinese poet, musician, painter, and statesman. Explore interesting quotes on mountain.
Wang Wei: 28   quotes 3   likes

“I have just seen you go down the mountain.
I close the wicker gate in the setting sun.
The grass will be green again in coming spring,
But will the wanderer ever return?”

Wang Wei

"Departure" (trans. Robert Payne)

Mountain , Spring , Grass , Sun

“The cold mountain turns dark green.
The autumn stream flows murmuring on.
Leaning on my staff beneath the wicket gate,
In the rushing wind I hear the cry of the aged cicada.”

Wang Wei

"The Cold Mountain"

Age , Mountain , Autumn , Cry

“All alone in a foreign land,
I am twice as homesick on this day
When brothers carry dogwood up the mountain,
Each of them a branch—and my branch missing.”

Wang Wei

"On the Mountain Holiday Thinking of My Brothers in Shan-tung" (九月九日忆山东兄弟), trans. Witter Bynner
Variant translation:
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.
"Thinking of My Brother in Shantung on the Ninth Day of the Ninth Moon", in The White Pony, ed. Robert Payne

Mountain

“In the mountains a night of rain,
And above the trees a hundred springs.”

Wang Wei

As quoted in Lin Yutang's My Country and My People (1936), p. 247

Mountain , Spring , Tree , Night