Li Po

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Date of Birth: ca. 701 A.D.
Date of Death: ca. 762 A.D.

Li Po was a Chinese poet. He was part of the group of Chinese scholars called the "Eight Immortals of the Wine Cup" in a poem by fellow poet Du Fu. Li Po is often regarded, along with Du Fu, as one of the two greatest poets in China's literary history. Approximately 1,100 of his poems remain today. The first translations in a Western language were published in 1862 by Marquis d'Hervey de Saint-Denys in his Poésies de l'Époque des Thang. The English-speaking world was introduced to Li Po's works by a Herbert Allen Giles publication History of Chinese Literature (1901) and through the liberal, but poetically influential, translations of Japanese versions of his poems made by Ezra Pound.

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Average rating: 4.25 · 375 ratings · 41 reviews · 16 distinct works

	The Selected Poems by Li Po, David Hinton (Translator) 4.36 avg rating — 211 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Li Po and Tu Fu: Poems by Li Po, Du Fu, Arthur Cooper 4.02 avg rating — 91 ratings — published 1973	My rating:
	The Works of Li Po: The Chinese Poet (1922) 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1966 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Poetry And Prose Of The Tang And Song (Panda Series) by Li Po, Li Bai 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings	My rating:
	Bright Moon, Perching Birds: Poems by Li Po, Tu Tu Fu 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1987	My rating:
	Tang Poems 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2001	My rating:
	Wave Hands Like Clouds: Kuang Ping Tai Chi: A Chinese Yoga of Meditation in Motion by Li Po, Ananda 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1975	My rating:
	Nebe mi pokrývkou a země polštářem 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1999	My rating:
	The Works of Li Po by Li Po, Shigeyoshi Obata (Translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	V záři měsíce: výběr ze staré čínské poezie v překladech Bohumila Mathesia, Františka Hrubína a Jiřího Žáčka by Li Po, Bohumil Mathesius (Translator), Ota Janeček (Illustrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2009	My rating:

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“We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains.”
― Li Po

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“When the hunter sets traps only for rabbits, tigers and dragons are left uncaught.”
― Li Po

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“On Drinking Alone by Moonlight

Here are flowers and here is wine,
But where’s a friend with me to join
Hand in hand and heart to heart
In one full cup before we part?

Rather than to drink alone,
I’ll make bold to ask the moon
To condescend to lend her face
The hour and the scene to grace.

Lo, she answers, and she brings
My shadow on her silver wings;
That makes three, and we shall be.
I ween, a merry company

The modest moon declines the cup,
But shadow promptly takes it up,
And when I dance my shadow fleet
Keeps measure with my flying feet.

But though the moon declines to tipple
She dances in yon shining ripple,
And when I sing, my festive song,
The echoes of the moon prolong.

Say, when shall we next meet together?
Surely not in cloudy weather,
For you my boon companions dear
Come only when the sky is clear.”
― Li Po, The Works of Li Po: The Chinese Poet

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