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This collection brings together the Li Bai lines currently verified in Gu Ren Said. Read the original Chinese beside pinyin, a close English rendering, plain meaning, work, collection, and source context.
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I raise my head and gaze at the bright moon; I lower it and think of home.
Plain meaningMoonlight makes me miss my home.
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The distant shadow of the lone sail disappears into the blue sky; only the Yangtze remains, flowing to the horizon.
Plain meaningI keep watching long after my friend has sailed away.
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When the great roc rises with the wind, it soars ninety thousand li.
Plain meaningA great ambition can rise with the right moment.
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We look at each other without tiring—only Mount Jingting and I.
Plain meaningNature can be the companion that never exhausts you.
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The cries of apes on both banks have not ceased, yet the light boat has already passed ten thousand mountains.
Plain meaningSometimes you realize only afterward how much hardship you have already crossed.
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A time will come to ride the long wind and break the waves; I will set my cloudlike sail straight across the vast sea.
Plain meaningYour chance will come. Keep going toward the larger horizon.
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Cut water with a blade and it flows all the more; raise a cup to drown sorrow and sorrow grows deeper.
Plain meaningTrying to force grief away can make it return even more strongly.
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When life goes well, enjoy it fully; do not leave the golden cup empty beneath the moon.
Plain meaningCelebrate the good moments while they are here.
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Clouds would borrow her robes and flowers her face; spring wind brushes the railing, and the dew glows richly.
Plain meaningHer beauty calls to mind clouds, blossoms, spring wind, and luminous dew.
English wording on Gu Ren Said is an original reading aid, not a claim that there is only one valid literary translation.
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