Since Life is but a Dream, Why toil to no avail? Li Bai More Quotes by Li Bai More Quotes From Li Bai Heaven is high, Earth Wide. Bitter between them flies my sorrow. Li Bai sorrow earth heaven Shade and light are different in every valley. Li Bai valleys different light The world is like a great empty dream. Why should one toil away one's life? Li Bai toil dream world To wash and rinse our souls of their age-old sorrows,We drained a hundred jugs of wine.A splendid night it was . . . .In the clear moonlight we were loath to go to bed,But at last drunkenness overtook us;And we laid ourselves down on the empty mountain,The earth for pillow, and the great heaven for coverlet Li Bai wine night heaven You ask why I make my home n the mountain forest, Li Bai other-worlds home water To find pleasure in life, make the most of the spring. Li Bai pleasure spring Beneath the blossoms with a pot of wine, No friends at hand, so I poured alone; I raised my cup to invite the moon, Turned to my shadow, and we became three. Li Bai wine moon hands 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. Li Bai lonely clouds bird Forever and forever and forever Li Bai dharma-bums forever I am asked why I live in the green mountains; I smile but reply not, for my heart is at rest. The flowing waters carry the image of the peach blossoms far, far away; there is an earth, there is a heaven, unknown to men. Li Bai heart water men Now let you and me buy wine today! Why say we have not the price? My horse spotted with five flowers, My fur-coat worth a thousand pieces of gold, These I will take out, and call my boy To barter them for sweet wine. And with you twain, let me forget The sorrow of ten thousand ages! Li Bai horse flower sweet The living is a passing traveler; The dead, a man come home. Li Bai passing home men The birds have vanished into the sky, and now the last cloud drains away. We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains. Li Bai garden sky clouds Gently I stir a white feather fan, Li Bai august summer wind In a universe animated by the interaction of yin (female) and yang (male) energies, the moon was literally yin visible. Indeed, it was the very germ or source of yin, and the sun was its yang counterpart. Li Bai males energy moon You ask me why I dwell in the green mountain; I smile and make no reply for my heart is free of care. As the peach-blossom flows down stream and is gone into the unknown, I have a world apart that is not among men. Li Bai heart spring men The autumn air is clear, Li Bai autumn moon night Growing older, I love only quietness: who need be concerned with the things of this world? Looking back, what better plan than this: returning to the grove. Li Bai growing world needs I bow in reverence to the white cloud. Li Bai nature white clouds Bears, dragons, tempestuous on mountain and river, Startle the forest and make the heights tremble. Clouds darken beneath the darkness of rain, streams pale with a pallor of mist. The gods of Thunder and Lightning Shatter the whole range. Li Bai rain winter spring
