Quotes by Li Bai
4 quotes by Li Bai (died 762), taken from 2 works. Each is given word for word, with its work, its passage and its source.
Works quoted: Fir-Flower Tablets and A Lute of Jade.
Fir-Flower Tablets
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“I lift my cup to Heaven and smile. / Heaven turns round, the sun shines in the West. / I am willing to sit on this rock forever, / Perpetually casting my fish-line like Yen Ling.”
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“In front of my bed the moonlight is very bright. / I wonder if that can be frost on the floor? / I lift up my head and look full at the full moon, the dazzling moon. / I drop my head, and think of the home of old days.”
A Lute of Jade
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“In vain we cleave the torrent’s thread with steel, / In vain we drink to drown the grief we feel; / When man’s desire with fate doth war this, this avails alone -- / To hoist the sail and let the gale and the waters bear us on.”
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“And now Spring beckons me with verdant hand, / And Nature’s wealth of eloquence doth win / Forth to the fragrant-bowered nectarine, / Where my dear friends abide, a careless band.”