The Selected Poems of Po Chü-i Quotes

“I wish we could be trees deep in the mountains,
touching, twining limb around limb.”
― Po Chu-i, The Selected Poems of Po Chü-i

“Blossom time, drunk together, banishing spring sorrow;
drunk, we broke off flowering limbs, counters for our rounds of wine.
Suddenly I remembered my old friend, gone to the edge of the sky:
by my reckoning, today he must have reached Liang-chou.”
― Po Chu-i, The Selected Poems of Po Chü-i

“It's human nature to dote on young ones,
and people when they grow old get soft-hearted.
But the sweetest wine in the end turns sour,
the moon, however full, eventually must wane.”
― Po Chu-i, The Selected Poems of Po Chü-i