Bai Juyi Quotes

#1. Living the gospel and standing in holy places is not always easy, but I testify that it is worth it.

Bonnie L. Oscarson

#2. I was trying to do something that seemed very natural and easy but which bridged that gulf between the singing voice and the speaking voice.

Carlisle Floyd

#3. Sent as a present from Annam
A red cockatoo.
Coloured like the peach-tree blossom,
Speaking with the speech of men.
And they did to it what is always done
To the learned and eloquent.
They took a cage with stout bars
And shut it up inside.

Bai Juyi

#4. A little child paddles a little boat, Drifting about, and picking white lotuses. He does not know how to hide his tracks, And duckweed's opened up along his path.

Bai Juyi

#5. Two monks sit facing, playing chess on the mountain, The bamboo shadow on the board is dark and clear. Not a person sees the bamboo's shadow, One sometimes hears the pieces being moved.

Bai Juyi

#6. I remember, when I was young, How easily my mood changed from sad to gay ... But now that age comes, A moment of joy is harder and harder to get.

Bai Juyi

#7. As Lily Cavenaugh says in The Talisman (and it was Peter Straub's line, not mine), "You can never be too thin or too rich." And if you don't believe it, you were never really fat or really poor.

Stephen King

#8. Fumes of wine shorten the long road.

Bai Juyi

#9. Blossom time, drunk together, banishing spring sorrow;
drunk, we broke off flowering limbs, counters for our rounds of wine.
Suddenly I remembered my old friend, gone to the edge of the sky:
by my reckoning, today he must have reached Liang-chou.

Bai Juyi

#10. This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties.

William Ames

#11. If we could simply live in the light of our bodies being temples of the Holy Spirit, our daily life would be transformed.

Elizabeth George

#12. Autumn clouds, vague and obscure; The evening, lonely and chill. I felt the dampness on my garments, But saw no spot, and heard no sound of rain.

Bai Juyi

#13. If the Fleeting World is but a long dream, it does not matter whether one is young or old.

Bai Juyi

#14. A strip of water's spread in the setting sun, Half the river's emerald, half is red. I love the third night of the ninth month, The dew is like a pearl; the moon like a bow.

Bai Juyi