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Su Shi
6 quotes
“水光潋滟晴方好，山色空蒙雨亦奇。 欲把西湖比西子，淡妆浓抹总相宜。”
Su Shi (1037–1101) first seen 1073 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The West Lake, the Beauty" (《饮湖上初晴后雨》) (1073), in Song of the Immortals: An Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry, trans. Yuanchong Xu (Beijing: New World Press, 1994), p. 200
“横看成岭侧成峰，远近高低各不同。 不识庐山真面目，只缘身在此山中。”
Su Shi (1037–1101) first seen 1084 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Written on the Wall at West Forest Temple" (《题西林壁》) (1084), in Selected Poems of Su Tung-p'o, trans. Burton Watson (Port Townsend, Wash.: Copper Canyon Press, 1994), p. 108
“十年生死两茫茫。不思量，自难忘。”
Su Shi (1037–1101) said by 1101 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dreaming of My Deceased Wife on the Night of the Twentieth Day of the First Month" (《江城子·乙卯正月二十日夜记梦》), in Song of the Immortals: An Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry, trans. Yuanchong Xu (Beijing: New…
“清夜无尘，月色如银 。 酒斟时须满十分。 浮名浮利，虚苦劳神。 叹隙中驹， 石中火， 梦中身。 虽抱文章，开口谁亲？ 且陶陶乐尽天真。 几时归去，作个闲人， 对一张琴， 一壶酒， 一溪云。”
Su Shi (1037–1101) said by 1101 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Random Thoughts, to the Tune of Shinghsiangtse" (《行香子·述怀》), in Lin Yutang Chinese-English Bilingual Edition: Selected Poems and Prose of Su Tungpo, trans. Lin Yutang (Taipei: Cheng Chung Book, 2008), p. 145
“Families when a child is born Hope it will turn out intelligent. I, through intelligence Having wrecked my whole life, Only hope that the baby will prove Ignorant and stupid. Then he'll be happy all his days And grow into a cabinet minister.”
Su Shi (1037–1101) said by 1101 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On the Birth of a Son", translated by Arthur Waley in Poetry (January 1918) and revised, as "On the Birth of his Son", in 170 Chinese Poems (1918) p. 98:
“What a ruler has to rely upon is only the human heart. Human hearts are to the ruler what roots are to a tree, what oil is to a lamp, water to fish, fields to a farmer, or money to a merchant.”
Su Shi (1037–1101) said by 1101 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Sources of Chinese Tradition: From Earliest Times to 1600 (1999), Wm. Theodore De Bary & Irene Bloom