The Selected Poems of Wang Wei Quotes

“Lotus blossoms adrift out across treetops
flaunt crimson calyces among mountains.

At home beside this stream, quiet, no one
here. Scattered. Scattered open and falling.”
― Wang Wei, The Selected Poems of Wang Wei

“No one seen. Among empty mountains,
hints of drifting voice, faint, no more.

Entering these deep woods, late sunlight
flares on green moss again, and rises.”
― Wang Wei, The Selected Poems of Wang Wei

“Stop searching and you arrive here

where people wander without danger,
look without seeing profound depths.

You who drift a world of dust hoping
to return--what other home is there?”
― Wang Wei, The Selected Poems of Wang Wei

“We wander life, no way back. Even a simple
birdcall starts us all dreaming of home again.”
― Wang Wei, The Selected Poems of Wang Wei

“I left all that, followed a crystalline river
into thick woodlands, idleness deepening.”
― Wang Wei, The Selected Poems of Wang Wei

“I'm crossing some border, local customs
changing, and the way people speak.”
― Wang Wei, The Selected Poems of Wang Wei

“The year drags on. I hoard the emptiness of this bed,
my dreams all mountain passes and grief of separation.”
― Wang Wei, The Selected Poems of Wang Wei

“In such meditative practice, we see that we are fundamentally separate from the mental processes we normally identify with (thought, memory, etc.), that we are most essentially the very emptiness that watches thought coming and going.”
― David Hinton, The Selected Poems of Wang Wei