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Li Bai
16 quotes
“花間一壺酒，獨酌無相親。 舉杯邀明月，對影成三人。 月既不解飲，影徒隨我身。 暫伴月將影，行樂須及春。 我歌月徘徊，我舞影零亂。 醒時同交歡，醉後各分散。 永結無情遊，相期邈雲漢。”
Li Bai (701–762) said by 762 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Drinking Alone by Moonlight" (月下獨酌), one of Li Bai's best-known poems, as translated by Arthur Waley in More Translations From the Chinese (1919)
“危楼高百尺，手可摘星辰。 不敢高声语，恐惊天上人。”
Li Bai (701–762) said by 762 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Summit Temple" (夜宿山寺), in The White Pony: An Anthology of Chinese Poetry from the Earliest Times to the Present Day (1947), p. 173
“床前明月光，疑是地上霜。 舉頭望明月，低頭思故鄉。”
Li Bai (701–762) said by 762 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Thoughts on a Still Night" (静夜思); in Jean Ward's Li T'ai-po: Remembered (2008), p. 99
“云想衣裳花想容，春风拂槛露华浓。 若非群玉山头见，会向瑶台月下逢。”
Li Bai (701–762) said by 762 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“君不见，黄河之水天上来，奔流到海不复回。”
Li Bai (701–762) said by 762 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: 李白 (zh)
“問余何意棲碧山，笑而不答心自閒。 桃花流水窅然去，別有天地非人間。”
Li Bai (701–762) said by 762 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“From the walls of Baidi high in the colored dawn To Jiangling by night-fall is three hundred miles, Yet monkeys are still calling on both banks behind me To my boat these ten thousand mountains away.”
Li Bai (701–762) said by 762 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All the birds have flown up and gone; A lonely cloud floats leisurely by. We never tire of looking at each other— Only the mountain and I.”
Li Bai (701–762) said by 762 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“镜湖三百里，菡萏发荷花。 五月西施采，人看隘若耶。 回舟不待月，归去越王家。”
Li Bai (701–762) said by 762 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“朝辞白帝彩云间，千里江陵一日还。 两岸猿声啼不住，轻舟已过万重山。”
Li Bai (701–762) said by 762 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“問餘何意棲碧山，笑而不答心自閒。 桃花流水窅然去，別有天地非人間。”
Li Bai (701–762) said by 762 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 《山中問答》— "The Poet", as translated by Herbert Giles in Chinese Poetry in English Verse (1898), p. 73
“飛流直下三千尺，疑是銀河落九天。”
Li Bai (701–762) said by 762 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: 李白 (zh)
“對酒不覺暝，落花盈我衣。”
Li Bai (701–762) said by 762 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Self-Abandonment" (自遣), as translated by Arthur Waley (1919)
“长风破浪会有时， 直挂云帆济沧海。”
Li Bai (701–762) said by 762 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“且樂生前一杯酒，何須身後千載名。”
Li Bai (701–762) said by 762 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: 李白 (zh)
“處世若大夢，胡爲勞其生？”
Li Bai (701–762) said by 762 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Homily on Ideals in Life, Uttered in Springtime on Rising From a Drunken Slumber" (c. 750), in A Golden Treasury of Chinese Poetry: 121 Classical Poems (1976), p. 115