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Li Bai

Born

Suyab, Kyrgyzstan

Genre

Poetry

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

This is a Chinese name. The family name is Li.

Li Bai (Li Pai; Chinese: 李白; pinyin: Lǐ Bái; Wade–Giles: Li Pai), also known as Li Bo (or Li Po; pinyin: Lǐ Bó; Wade–Giles: 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 ...more

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Average rating: 3.97 · 3,732 ratings · 397 reviews · 101 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Selected Poems by Li Bai, David Hinton (Translator) 4.35 avg rating — 695 ratings — published 1996 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Li Po and Tu Fu: Poems by Li Bai, Du Fu, Arthur Cooper 4.14 avg rating — 442 ratings — published 1973 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bright Moon, White Clouds: Selected Poems of Li Po by Li Bai (Translation), J.P. Seaton (Translator) 4.11 avg rating — 84 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eres tan bella como una flor, pero las nubes nos separan 3.52 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 2000	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Works Of Li Po: The Chinese Poet (1922) by Li Bai, Shigeyoshi Obata (Translator) 4.36 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 1922 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Facing the Moon: Poems of Li Bai and Du Fu by Li Bai, Du Fu, Keith Holyoak (Translator) 4.10 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Endless River by Li Bai, Sam Hamill (Translator) 4.26 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1993	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Poemas clássicos chineses by Li Bai, Du Fu, Wang Wei 4.05 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chinese Poetry, Anthology of Li Bai 4.21 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nebe mi pokrývkou a země polštářem by Li Bai, Ferdinand Stočes (Translator) 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1999	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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

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“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 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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