The Journey to the West, Volume 2 Quotes

“We must be cloaked by the stars and wrapped by the moon; we must dine on the winds and rest by the waters. We move on if there’s a road, and we stop only when we come to its end.”
― Anthony C. Yu, The Journey to the West, Revised Edition, Volume 2

“Do good a thousand days,     But the good is still insufficient;     Do evil for one day,     And that evil is already excessive.”
― Anthony C. Yu, The Journey to the West, Revised Edition, Volume 2

“Each palace, with its chimes, drums, pipes, and vertical flutes,     Releases its boudoir sorrows and springtime griefs.     There are in the forbidden courtyard     Young, fresh faces like flowers bedewed;     There are on the palace moat     Slender waists like willows dancing in the wind.”
― Anthony C. Yu, The Journey to the West, Revised Edition, Volume 2

“after which he followed up with the style of “Stealing Peaches beneath the Leaves”
― Anthony C. Yu, The Journey to the West, Revised Edition, Volume 2